Blackwood's Magazine, 1817-25, Volume 1

Selections from Maga's Infancy

Nicholas Mason, John Strachan, Anthony Jarrells, Tom Mole, Mark Parker

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781138750401
• eBook ISBN: 9781000888195
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literatur
• Subtopic: Literaturkritik

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• General Introduction
• Editorial Principles
• Introduction
• James Hogg, ‘Verses … on … our final Victory over the French’ (I, April 1817)
• Anon., ‘A Curious Old Song’ (II, October 1817)
• Anon. (‘H.’), ‘The Shade of Burns to his Tormentors’ (II, November 1817)
• John Wilson, ‘Lines Written in a Burial-Ground’ (II, December 1817)
• Peter George Patmore, ‘Sonnets to Mr. Wordsworth’ (II, February 1818)
• Anon. (‘A Lady’), ‘Elegy on the Death of an Idiot Girl’ (II, February 1818)
• Thomas Hamilton, ‘Some Account of the Life and Writings of Ensign Odoherty’ (II, February 1818)
• John Gibson Lockhart et al. (?), ‘Notices to Correspondents’ (II, March 1818)
• Thomas Hamilton, ‘To the Publisher’ (II, March 1818)
• Felicia Hemans, ‘On the Death of the Princess Charlotte’ (III, April 1818)
• Anon. (‘S. S.’), ‘Poetical Account of an Oxford Examination’ (III, June 1818)
• William Wordsworth, ‘Three Sonnets … Caves in Yorkshire’ (IV, January 1819)
• John Gibson Lockhart and David Macbeth Moir, ‘Odoherty’s Garland’, ‘Eve of St Jerry’, ‘Auncient Waggonere’ (IV, February 1819)
• David Macbeth Moir, ‘Christabel, Part Third’ (V, June 1819)
• David Macbeth Moir, ‘Billy Routing, A Lyrical Ballad’ (V, July 1819)
• John Hughes (?), ‘Small Talk’ (V, September 1819)
• Felicia Hemans, ‘The Meeting of Wallace and Bruce’ (V, September 1819)
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ‘Fancy in Nubibus’ (VI, November 1819)
• William Maginn, ‘Don Juan Unread’ (VI, November 1819)
• David Macbeth Moir, ‘Moods of the Mind’ (VII, April 1820)
• William Maginn, John Gibson Lockhart et al., ‘“Luctus” on the Death of Sir Daniel Donnelly’ (VII, May 1820)
• John Gibson Lockhart, ‘The Testimonium’ (VII, July 1820)
• William Maginn and William Gosnell, ‘Daniel O’Rourke, An Epic Poem’ (VI, August 1820, and VIII, October 1820)
• David Macbeth Moir, ‘Sonnet to Haydon’, ‘Sonnet to Wordsworth’ (VIII, February 1821)
• David Macbeth Moir, ‘Love Song, By a Junior Member of the Cockney School’ (VIII, March 1821)
• David Macbeth Moir, ‘Napoleon’, ‘Stanzas, On the Death of Napoleon’ (IX, July 1821)
• Caroline Bowles, ‘To a Dying Infant’ (IX, July 1821)
• William Maginn, ‘Ode on the King’s Landing in Ireland’ (X, August 1821)
• R. F. St Barbe, ‘The Route’ (XII, October 1822)
• Caroline Bowles, ‘Letter from a Washerwoman’ (XIII, February 1823)
• William Maginn, ‘A Happy New-Year’ (XV, January 1824)
• John Hughes, ‘Magic Lay of the One-Horse Chay’ (XVI, October 1824)
• William Maginn, ‘Number a Hundred’ (XVII, May 1825)
• Editorial Notes