Haney gathers extracts from the reviews that greeted the great English poets on first appearance, from Gray, Goldsmith, Cowper and Burns through Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey and Scott to the later Romantics. Praise and abuse sit side by side, often from the same quarterly, with a short introduction on the history of criticism.
An entertaining and humbling record of how badly critics can misjudge their own time. Download the free EPUB.