1st Edition

Blackwood's Magazine, 1817-25, Volume 5 Selections from Maga's Infancy

    Contextualizes and annotates the influential, scandalous, and entertaining texts which appeared in the "Blackwood's Magazine" between 1817 and 1825. This title features a detailed general introduction, volume introductions and endnotes, providing the reader with an understanding of the origins and early history of "Blackwood's Magazine".

    Introduction John Wilson, ‘Observations on Mr. Wordsworth’s Letter … on Burns’ (I, June 1817) John Wilson, ‘Manfred’ (I, June 1817) Anon., ‘Modern Greece’ (I, August 1817) John Wilson, ‘Observations on Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria’ (II, October 1817) John Gibson Lockhart, ‘On the Cockney School of Poetry, No. I’ (II, October 1817) John Wilson, ‘Vindication of Mr. Wordsworth’s Letter’ (II, October 1817) John Gibson Lockhart, ‘On the Cockney School of Poetry, No. II’(II, November 1817) John Wilson, ‘Letter occasioned by N.’s Vindication of Mr. Wordsworth’ (II, November 1817) John Smyth (?), ‘Letter to the Reviewer of Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria’ (II, December 1817) John Gibson Lockhart, ‘Letter from Z. to Mr. Leigh Hunt’ (II, January 1818) Anon. (‘H. R. M.’), ‘The Jumpers, A New School of Poetry’ (II, February 1818) Walter Scott, ‘Remarks on Frankenstein’ (II, March 1818) John Wilson, ‘The Fudge Family in Paris’ (III, May 1818) John Gibson Lockhart (?), ‘Letter from Z. to Leigh Hunt, King of the Cockneys’ (III, May 1818) John Wilson, ‘Fourth Canto of Childe Harold’ (III, May 1818) John Gibson Lockhart (?), ‘Letter to the Author of Beppo’ (III, June 1818) John Wilson, ‘Essays on the Lake School of Poetry, No. I’ (III, July 1818) John Gibson Lockhart, ‘The Cockney School of Poetry, No. III’ (III, July 1818) John Gibson Lockhart, ‘The Cockney School of Poetry, No. IV’ (III, August 1818) John Wilson, ‘Hazlitt Cross-Questioned’ (III, August 1818) John Wilson, ‘On Shakespeare’s Sonnets’ (III, August 1818) John Wilson, ‘The Preternatural in Fiction’ (III, September 1818) John Wilson, ‘Of a National Character in Literature’ (III, September 1818) John Wilson (?), ‘Essays on the Lake School of Poetry, No. II (IV, December 1818) William Howison, ‘Thoughts on Novel Writing’ (IV, January 1819) John Gibson Lockhart, ‘Observations on the Revolt of Islam’ (IV, January 1819) John Wilson, ‘Burns and the Ettrick Shepherd’ (IV, February 1819) John Gibson Lockhart, ‘On the Cockney School of Poetry, No. V’ (V, April 1819) Anon., ‘Peter Bell’ (V, May 1819) John Gibson Lockhart, ‘Rosalind and Helen’ (V, June 1819) Anon., ‘The Waggoner’ (V, June 1819) John Wilson (?), ‘Mazeppa’ (V, July 1819) John Gibson Lockhart (?), ‘Remarks on Don Juan’ (V, August 1819) John Wilson, ‘Essays on the Lake School of Poetry, No. III’ (VI, October 1819) John Gibson Lockhart, ‘On the Cockney School of Poetry, No. VI’ (VI, October 1819) John Gibson Lockhart, ‘Shelley’s Alastor and Other Poems’ (VI, November 1819)