Blackwood's Magazine, 1817-25, Volume 6

Selections from Maga's Infancy

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

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2023
• eBook ISBN: 9781000888218
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

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
• Introduction
• John Gibson Lockhart, ‘On the Writings of Charles Brockden Brown and Washington Irving’ (VI, February 1820)
• John Gibson Lockhart, ‘Prometheus Unbound’ (VII, September 1820)
• Anon., ‘Melmoth the Wanderer, &c.’ (VIII, November 1820)
• David Macbeth Moir, ‘On Critics and Criticism’ (VIII, November 1820)
• Anon., ‘Kenilworth’ (VIII, January 1821)
• Anon., ‘The Leg of Mutton School of Poetry. No. I’ (IX, June 1821)
• Anon. (‘Harry Franklin’), ‘Continuation of Don Juan’ (X, August 1821)
• Anon., ‘Chaucer and Don Juan’ (X, October 1821)
• George Croly and William Maginn (?), ‘Remarks on Shelley’s Adonais’ (X, December 1821)
• John Gibson Lockhart, ‘Lord Byron’s Three New Tragedies’ (XI, January 1822)
• Thomas Doubleday, ‘How Far is Poetry an Art?’ (XI, February 1822)
• Eyre Evans Crowe, ‘American Poetry’ (XI, June 1822)
• Anon., ‘The Mohawks’ (XI, June 1822)
• William Howison, ‘The Fortunes of Nigel’ (XI, June 1822)
• Eyre Evans Crowe, ‘Hazlitt’s Table-Talk’ (XII, August 1822)
• John Gibson Lockhart, ‘On the Cockney School. No. VII. Hunt’s Art of Love’ (XII, December 1822)
• Thomas Doubleday, ‘On the Sources of the Picturesque and Beautiful’ (XIV, September 1823)
• John Gibson Lockhart, ‘Odoherty on Don Juan, Cantos IX. X. XI.’ (XIV, September 1823)
• John Wilson, ‘Hogg’s Three Perils of Woman’ (XIV, October 1823)
• John Gibson Lockhart, ‘Ballantyne’s Novelists’ Library’ (XV, April 1824)
• Anon., ‘The Inheritance, A Novel’ (XV, June 1824)
• William Harness, ‘Celebrated Female Writers. No. I. Joanna Baillie’ (XVI, August 1824)
• William Maginn, ‘Miss Landon’s Poetry’ (XVI, August 1824)
• John Neal, ‘American Writers [No. I]’ (XVI, September 1824)
• John Neal, ‘Men and Women; Brief Hypothesis concerning the Difference in their Genius’ (XVI, October 1824)
• John Wilson, ‘Cockney School of Poetry. No. VIII. Hunt’s Bacchus in Tuscany’ (XVIII, August 1825)
• Editorial Notes
• Index