Blackwood's Byron: the Lakers, the Cockneys, and the ‘throne of poetical supremacy’

Morrison, R (2017) 'Blackwood's Byron: the Lakers, the Cockneys, and the ‘throne of poetical supremacy’.' Romanticism, 23 (3). pp. 272-281.

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2017.0342

Abstract

Blackwood's in its earliest numbers was a staunch admirer of Lord Byron. But when he published Beppo, it damned him in a June 1818 review as a hypocrite and a reveller, and thereafter the magazine lurched between celebrating him for his genius and castigating him for his perversion of it. Byron objected to the uneven treatment he received at the hands of the Blackwood's critics, but in ‘Some Observations Upon an Article in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine’ he echoes their views on several contemporary poets, and seems to reconcile himself to the exuberant unpredictability of the magazine.

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Robert Morrison was also the editor of this special issue.

Divisions: School of Writing, Publishing and the Humanities
Date Deposited: 09 Sep 2019 16:01
Last Modified: 15 Aug 2021 09:53
ISSN: 1354-991X
URI / Page ID: https://researchspace.bathspa.ac.uk/id/eprint/12643
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