PERIODICALS AND MAGAZINES IN THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE -?PART 3

🔴 PERIODICALS AND MAGAZINES IN THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE 🔴PART 3 

1️⃣5️⃣ BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE or 'the Maga', was an innovating monthly periodical begun by W.

*Blackwood as a Tory rival to the Whiggish *Edinburgh

Review. It began in Apr il 1817 as the Edinburgh Monthly

Magazine and in October that year continued as

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine until Dec. 1905;

from Jan. 1906 onwards it became Blackwood's Magazine.

Although its politics were the same as those of the

*Quarterly Review, it was intended to be sharper,

brighter, and less ponderous. The first editors were

shortly replaced by *Lockhart, John *Wilson, and J.

*Hogg, who gave the 'Maga' its forceful partisan tone. 

Its notoriety was early established with the publication

in 1817 of the so-called *'Chaldee MS', in which many

leading Edinburgh figures were pilloried; and with the

beginning, also in 1817, of the long series of attacks on the *'Cockney School of Poetry', directed chiefly against Leigh *Hunt, *Keats, and *Hazlitt. Blackwood had to pay damages more than once, notably to Hazlitt, for the venom of his writers' pens, and John *Murray gave up the London agency for the magazine in protest. Blackwood's did however give considerable support to *Wordsworth, *Shelley, *De Quincey, *Mackenzie, *Galt, Sir W. *Scott, and others, and did much to foster an interest in German literature. Unlike the Edinburgh and the Quarterly it published short stories and serialized novels. The *Noctes Ambrosianae, though of ephemeral interest, was a highly popular series of sketches. Soon after 1830 the magazine became a purely literary review, and continued through the 19th cent, as a prosperous and respected

literary miscellany, publishing *Conrad, *Noyes, *Lang, and many others. It continued, in a diminished form, until 1980.    

1️⃣6️⃣ COSMOPOLIS An International Monthly Review was a multi-lingual literary magazine published between January 1896 and November 1898. The lead edition of Cosmopolis was published in London, but local editions of the magazine were also published in Berlin, Paris, and Saint Petersburg.

Each edition of Cosmopolis contained non-fiction articles, literary reviews, and new fiction in English, French, and German; later editions also contained material in Russian. Cosmopolis was edited by Fernand Ortmans and was published in London by T. Fisher Unwin. It had a circulation of approximately 20,000.   

1️⃣7️⃣ THE CRITIC The Critic was a magazine founded in London by John Crockford and Edward William Cox. Its full title was The Critic of Literature, Science, and the Drama, and it was edited by James Lowe during its existence from 1843 to 1863. It was started as a book review section of Law Times, which reviewed the world of journals. The magazine was started as a separate publication in November 1843. In turn it gave rise to The Clerical Journal, in 1853. In 1851/2 it featured a substantial series of articles by Francis Espinasse, as "Herodotus Smith", on the quarterly journals. The magazine ended publication at the end of 1863.