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REVIEWS

GRAY Odes (_Monthly Review_) 1
GOLDSMITH The Traveller (_Critical Review_) 5
COWPER Poems, 1782 (_Critical Review_) 10
BURNS Poems, 1786 (_Edinburgh Magazine_) 13
Poems, 1786 (_Critical Review_) 15
WORDSWORTH Descriptive Sketches (_Monthly Review_) 16
An Evening Walk (_Monthly Review_) 19
Lyrical Ballads (_Critical Review_) 20
Poems, 1807 (_Edinburgh Review_) 24
COLERIDGE Christabel (_Edinburgh Review_) 47
SOUTHEY Madoc (_Monthly Review_) 60
LAMB Blank Verse (_Monthly Review_) 65
Album Verses (_Literary Gazette_) 66
LANDOR Gebir (_British Critic_) 68
Gebir (_Monthly Review_) 69
SCOTT Marmion (_Edinburgh Review_) 70
BYRON Hours of Idleness (_Edinburgh Review_) 94
Childe Harold (_Christian Observer_) 101
SHELLEY Alastor (_Monthly Review_) 115
The Cenci (_London Magazine_) 116
Adonais (_Literary Gazette_) 129
KEATS Endymion (_Quarterly Review_) 135
Endymion (_Blackwood's Magazine_) 141
TENNYSON Timbuctoo (_Athenaeum_) 151
Poems, 1833 (_Quarterly Review_) 152
The Princess (_Literary Gazette_) 176
BROWNING Paracelsus (_Athenaeum_) 187
Sordello (_Monthly Review_) 188
Men and Women (_Saturday Review_) 189

Notes 197
Index 223

INTRODUCTION

To the modern reader, with an abundance of periodicals of all sorts and
upon all subjects at hand, it seems hardly possible that this wealth of
ephemeral literature was virtually developed within the past two
centuries. It offers such a rational means for the dissemination of the
latest scientific and literary news that the mind undeceived by facts