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Scott, John
Scott, John (1783–1821), was the first editor, 1820–1, of the London Magazine; he had by then edited The Champion, and published A Visit to Paris (1814) and Paris Revisited (1816). He attracted a brilliant set of contributors; De Quincey's Confessions of an Opium Eater, Lamb's earlier ‘Elia’ essays, and much of Hazlitt's Table-Talk first appeared in the London Magazine, as well as work by Keats, Clare, Hood, Darley, Carlyle, Cunningham, and others. He came into conflict with Blackwood's Magazine, detesting what he saw as its ‘scurrility’ and ‘duplicity and treachery’, and he felt obliged to defend his ‘Cockney School’. His attacks on Blackwood's, in particular on Lockhart, led to a series of confusions which culminated in a duel with J. H. Christie, a close friend of Lockhart, in which Scott was killed.
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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Scott, John." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Scott, John." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-ScottJohn.html MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Scott, John." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-ScottJohn.html |
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