The Polar Star Being A Continuation Of The Extractor Of Entertainment And Popular Science

Growth of interest in the periodical literature of the past has emphasized increasingly the need for specialized hand lists, a need which the American Union List of Serials, the British Union Catalogue of the Periodical Publications in the University Libraries of the British Isles, and other existing indexes cannot answer. To satisfy one area of this need, William S. Ward has compiled a near-definitive index and finding list of periodicals and newspapers of the English Romantic period. In it are reflected the holdings of almost eleven hundred American, Canadian, and British libraries and newspaper offices. The volume is also the first to list titles and library locations of all the newspapers, magazines, and other serials published in the British Isles during the years between the French Revolution and the Great Reform Bill.

The importance of the criticism from 1822-1860 to the development of Shelley's reputation has long been acknowledged, but the diverse texts have so far defied close study. This book will go some way towards making the material better understood and more easily accessible.