Reviews for History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century

The average rating for History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-08-17 00:00:00 Stacey Boreta This book is what literary criticism should be--what it was before the poison of so-called "literary theory" was slipped into the wine of scholarship. Beers gives us a balance of history and criticism that probably no one is capable of today. He writes the kind of book that C S Lewis commends somewhere as one that sends us eagerly off to read and re-read the subjects of his study. Would God that all the Lord's people were prophets!

Review # 2 was written on 2014-04-02 00:00:00 Tim Rose This is another of my fav books on math that I've read this year. Assuming a minimal set of prerequisites (probably just that you know English and know how to count), this book introduces you to a variety of topics ranging from number theory, 2D and 3D geometry, topology, to chaos theory, probability and statistics, and more importantly, HOW THEY RELATE AND APPLY TO THE REAL WORLD. The complexity is fairly minimal; they emphasize more on making you think better and having fun during the process rather than making you manipulate complicated notation and jargon. The chapters are all more or less self-contained, so you can pick and start from a chapter that suits your tastes. (A word of warning though - it's a huge book, nearly a thousand pages long. Took me nearly 11 months to finish it. 8, perhaps, if you exclude the days I didn't read it.)