Walking in high places
Michael Neve, 21 October 1982
The Ferment of Knowledge: Studies in the Historiography of 18th-Century Science
edited by G.S. Rousseau and R.S. Porter.
Cambridge, 500 pp., £25, November 1980,9780521225991 Show More
edited by G.S. Rousseau and R.S. Porter.
Cambridge, 500 pp., £25, November 1980,
Romanticism and the Forms of Ruin
by Thomas McFarland.
Princeton, 432 pp., £24.60, February 1981,0 691 06437 7 Show More
by Thomas McFarland.
Princeton, 432 pp., £24.60, February 1981,
Poetry realised in Nature: Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Early 19th-Century Science
by Trevor Levere.
Cambridge, 271 pp., £22.50, October 1981,0 521 23920 6 Show More
by Trevor Levere.
Cambridge, 271 pp., £22.50, October 1981,
Young Charles Lamb 1775-1802
by Winifred Courtney.
Macmillan, 411 pp., £25, July 1982,0 333 31534 0 Show More
by Winifred Courtney.
Macmillan, 411 pp., £25, July 1982,
“... considerably smaller than the house in Covent Garden where De Quincey wrote his Confessions. Winifred Courtney has not written a biography for the general reader, partly because of her devotion to Lamb, which produces a book that is extremely detailed, and not governed by a clear theme. She points out that the last biography of Lamb was that of ... ”
