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Blackwood, William
Blackwood, William (1776–1834). Born in Edinburgh, Blackwood established himself in the book trade and then went into publishing. In 1817 he launched a magazine to counter the Whig tendencies of the Edinburgh Review, founded in 1802, but less ponderous than the Tory Quarterly Review (1809). After a faltering start, Blackwood's established itself, with Lockhart, John Galt, John Wilson, and James Hogg among its authors. During its first year, Blackwood's published a series of severe attacks on ‘the Cockney school of poetry’. Lockhart dismissed Keats's Endymion as ‘calm, settled, imperturbable drivelling idiocy’, and the comments on Hazlitt were so virulent that he was able to get damages from Blackwood. The magazine was continued by his son John Blackwood, and survived until 1980.
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JOHN CANNON. "Blackwood, William." The Oxford Companion to British History. 2002. Encyclopedia.com. 30 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN CANNON. "Blackwood, William." The Oxford Companion to British History. 2002. Encyclopedia.com. (May 30, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O110-BlackwoodWilliam.html JOHN CANNON. "Blackwood, William." The Oxford Companion to British History. 2002. Retrieved May 30, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O110-BlackwoodWilliam.html |
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Blackwood, William
Blackwood, William (1776–1834), Scots publisher, founder of the firm of William Blackwood and Son, and of Blackwood's (Edinburgh) Magazine. He published Galt's The Ayrshire Legatees. His sons, in turn, became editors of Blackwood's.
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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Blackwood, William." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 30 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Blackwood, William." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (May 30, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-BlackwoodWilliam.html MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Blackwood, William." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved May 30, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-BlackwoodWilliam.html |
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