"This is a very welcome addition to the burgeoning canon of critical material on Romanticism in Ireland and Scotland (to say nothing of Wales) since the 1990s....The essays assembled by David Duff and Catherine Jones are all useful in putting down markers and providing information on the 'Romantic aesthetic' in Scotland and Ireland."

- Gerard Carruthers, The Byron Journal of Scotland, Ireland, and the Romantic Aesthetic, 36.2, University Of Glasgow

"Bucknell University Press deserves commendation not only for the high quality of the book—the production staff did an outstanding job—but also for its commitment to studies of the long eighteenth century in general and to Scottish and Irish studies in particular. And Duff and Jones equally merit praise for the valuable contribution to an important and expanding field."

- Matthew Wickman, Associate Professor of English, Brigham Young University, Brigham Young University Quarterly, Eighteenth Century Scotland, Spring 2008, n. 22