Blackwoods Magazine 1817 25 Volume 3 PDF Download

This is the first comprehensive scholarly edition of Blackwood’s Magazine's early years. The six-volume set draws together the most influential, scandalous, and entertaining texts which appeared during the magazine's early years, when John Lockhart and William Maginn were on the staff. The staunchly conservative, Edinburgh-based monthly was the most trenchant critic of the ‘Cockney School’, gleefully baiting Leigh Hunt’s circle and (at least in popular legend) collaborating with the Quarterly Review to send Keats to an early grave. ‘Maga’ (as Blackwood’s was widely known) was an early appreciator of Percy and Mary Shelley, an occasional champion of the middle-aged Wordsworth and Coleridge, and a shrewd commentator on the ‘Byromania’ that swept Europe. This collection will be useful for scholars interested in early-nineteenth-century British literature and culture, and texts have been chosen for their usefulness in researching and teaching British Romanticism.