1st Edition

Percy Bysshe Shelley The Critical Heritage

Edited By James E. Barcus Copyright 1975
    448 Pages
    by Routledge

    448 Pages
    by Routledge

    The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels.
    The carefully selected sources range from landmark essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and little published documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation.
    Each volume contains an introduction to the writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects.
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    Introduction; Part 1 Original Poetry, by Victor and Cazire; Chapter 1 Unsigned review, The Literary Panorama; Chapter 2 Unsigned notice, The British Critic; Chapter 3 Unsigned notice, under ‘Criticisms 1811,’ The Poetical Register and Repository of Fugitive Poetry for 1810–1811; Part 2 Zastrozzi, a Romance; Chapter 4 Unsigned notice, The Gentleman’s Magazine and Historical Chronicle; Chapter 5 Unsigned, review, The Critical Review and Annals of Literature; Part 3 St. Irvyne: or The Rosicrucian; Chapter 6 Unsigned notice, The British Critic; Chapter 7 Unsigned review, The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine; Chapter 8 Unsigned letter, The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine; Part 4 The Necessity of Atheism and a Declaration of Rights; Chapter 9 Robert Southey, from a letter to Grosvenor Bedford; Chapter 10 Unsigned review, The Brighton Magazine; Part 5 Queen Mab; Chapter 11 Review signed ‘F.,’ The Theological Inquirer, or Polemical Magazine; Chapter 12 Unsigned review, John Bull’s British Journal; Chapter 13 Unsigned review, The London Magazine and Theatrical Inquisitor; Chapter 14 Unsigned review, The Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres; Chapter 15 Unsigned notice, The Monthly Magazine and British Register; Chapter 16 Unsigned notice, The Literary Chronicle and Weekly Review; Chapter 17 Richard Carlile, review, The Republican; Chapter 18 William Bengo Collyer, from a review of Queen Mab in ‘Licentious Productions in High Life,’ The Investigator, or Quarterly Magazine; Chapter 19 Henry Crabb Robinson, diary entry; Part 6 Alastor; or The Spirit of Solitude: and other poems; Chapter 20 Unsigned notice, The Monthly Review, or Literary Journal; Chapter 21 Unsigned review, The British Critic; Chapter 22 Unsigned review, The Eclectic Review; Chapter 23 Leigh Hunt on Shelley in ‘Young Poets,’ The Examiner; Chapter 24 John Gibson Lockhart, review, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine; Part 7 The Revolt of Islam; Chapter 25 Leigh Hunt, The Examiner; Chapter 26 John Gibson Lockhart, unsigned review, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine; Chapter 27 Unsigned review, The Monthly Review; Chapter 28 John Taylor Coleridge, review, The Quarterly Review; Chapter 29 Leigh Hunt, ‘The Quarterly Review and The Revolt of Islam’, The Examiner; Part 8 Rosalind and Helen; Chapter 30 Leigh Hunt, review, The Examiner; Chapter 31 Unsigned review, The Commercial Chronicle; Chapter 32 John Wilson, review, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine; Chapter 33 Unsigned review, The Monthly Review, or Literary Journal; Part 9 The Cenci; Chapter 34 Unsigned notice, The Monthly Magazine, or British Register; Chapter 35 Unsigned review, The Literary Gazette, and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences; Chapter 36 Unsigned review, The London Magazine and Monthly Critical and Dramatic Review; Chapter 37 Review signed ‘B.,’ The Theatrical Inquisitor and Monthly Mirror; Chapter 38 Unsigned review, The New Monthly Magazine and Universal Register; Chapter 39 Unsigned review, The Edinburgh Monthly Review; Chapter 40 Unsigned review, The London Magazine; Chapter 41 Leigh Hunt, review, The Indicator; Chapter 42 John Keats, letter; Chapter 43 Unsigned review, The Monthly Review; Chapter 44 Unsigned review, The Independent, a London Literary and Political Review; Chapter 45 Unsigned review, The British Review and London Critical Journal; Chapter 46 Henry Crabb Robinson, diary entries; Chapter 47 James Russell Lowell, ‘The Imagination,’ The Function of the Poet; Part 10 Prometheus Unbound; Chapter 48 Extract, unsigned review, The London Magazine, under ‘Literary and Scientific Intelligence’; Chapter 49 Unsigned review, The Literary Gazette, and journal of the Belles Lettres; Chapter 50 John Gibson Lockhart, review, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine; Chapter 51 Unsigned review, The London Magazine and Monthly Critical and Dramatic Review; Chapter 52 Unsigned review, The Lonsdale Magazine or Provincial Repository; Chapter 53 Unsigned review, The Monthly Review and British Register; Chapter 54 W. S. Walker, review, The Quarterly Review; Chapter 55 Henry Crabb Robinson, diary entry; Chapter 56 Henry Crabb Robinson, diary entries; Chapter 57 James Russell Lowell, extract from review of The Life and Letters of James Gates Percival, North American Review; Part 11 General Comment and Opinions in 1820 and 1821; Chapter 58 Extract from unsigned ‘Portraits of the Metropolitan Poets, No. III, Mr. Percy Byshe, sic] Shelley,’ in The Honeycomb; Chapter 59 Lord Byron, from a letter to Richard Belgrave Hoppner; Chapter 60 Unsigned article, ‘Critical Remarks on Shelley’s Poetry’; Chapter 61 Extract from unsigned article, ‘On the Philosophy and Poetry of Shelley’; Chapter 62 Lord Byron, in conversation to P. B. Shelley; Chapter 63 William Hazlitt, from ‘On Paradox and Commonplace’ in Table Talk; Chapter 64 Notice signed ‘J. W.,’ The Champion; Part 12 ‘Epipsychidion,’ ‘Adonais’, ‘Hellas,’ and General Comment From; Chapter 65 ‘Seraphina and Her Sister Clementina’s Review of Epipsychidion,’ The Gossip; Chapter 66 Unsigned review, The Literary Chronicle and Weekly Review; Chapter 67 Unsigned review, The Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres; Chapter 68 Unsigned review, ‘Remarks on Shelley’s Adonais,’ Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine; Chapter 69 Leigh Hunt, ‘Letters to the Readers of the Examiner, No. 6—On Mr. Shelley’s New Poem, Entitled Adonais’; Chapter 70 Unsigned review, The General Weekly Register of News, Literature, Law, Politics, and Commerce; Chapter 71 Leigh Hunt, The Examiner; Chapter 72 Extract from an anonymous article, ‘The Augustan Age in England’; Chapter 73 Bernard Barton, letter to Robert Southey; Chapter 74 Bernard Barton, letter to William Pearson; Chapter 75 Robert Southey, letter to Bernard Barton; Chapter 76 William Hazlitt, extract from ‘Preface and Critical List of Authors’ in Select British Poets; Part 13 Posthumous Poems 1824; Chapter 77 William Hazlitt, review of Shelley’s Posthumous Poems; Chapter 78 Charles Lamb, letter to Bernard Barton; Chapter 79 Henry Crabb Robinson, diary entry; Chapter 80 Unsigned notice, ‘Criticism: Percy Bysshe Shelley,’ New York Literary Gazette and Phi Beta Kappa Repository; Chapter 81 Article signed ‘P. P.,’ Philadelphia Monthly Magazine; Chapter 82 William Hazlitt, extract from ‘Poetry’ in The Atlas; Chapter 83 Thomas Moore, from a letter to Mary Shelley; Chapter 84 Coleridge, letter to John E. Reade; Chapter 85 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, conversation with John Frere; Chapter 86 Review signed ‘Egeria,’ ‘Character and Writings of Shelley’; Chapter 87 Unsigned review, extracts from ‘The Shelley Papers’; Chapter 88 Margaret Fuller Ossoli, extract from memoir, entry under ‘Literature’; Chapter 89 Robert Southey, extract from letter to John E. Reade; Part 14 Reassessments and Reconsiderations After 1840; Chapter 90 Ralph Waldo Emerson, from a letter to Margaret Fuller Ossoli; Chapter 91 Ralph Waldo Emerson, from a letter to Margaret Fuller Ossoli; Chapter 92 Henry T. Tuckerman, extracts from ‘Shelley,’ Southern Literary Messenger; Chapter 93 Henry Crabb Robinson, diary entries; Chapter 94 Orestes Brownson, extracts from ‘Shelley’s Poetical Works,’ Boston Quarterly Review; Chapter 95 Ralph Waldo Emerson, journal entry; Chapter 96 Parke Godwin, ‘Percy Bysshe Shelley,’ United States Magazine and Democratic Review; Chapter 97 T. H. Chivers, ‘Shelley,’ Southern Literary Messenger; Chapter 98 Margaret Fuller Ossoli, ‘Shelley’s Poems’; Chapter 99 Nathaniel Hawthorne, from ‘Earth’s Holocaust,’ Mosses from an Old Manse; Chapter 100 Nathaniel Hawthorne, from ‘P’s Correspondence,’ Mosses from an Old Manse; Chapter 101 Margaret Fuller Ossoli, extract from ‘Modern British Poets,’ Papers on Literature and Art; Chapter 102 Henry Crabb Robinson, diary entry; Chapter 103 Ralph Waldo Emerson, from a letter to James Hutchison Stirling;

    Biography

    Ilana Snyder, Monash University