Blackwood's Magazine, 1817-25, Volume 5

Selections from Maga's Infancy

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

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781138750449
• eBook ISBN: 9781000888201
• 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 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)
• Editorial Notes