Edinburgh Review
Edinburgh Review ( 1802 – 1929 ),a quarterly periodical, established by F. Jeffrey , Sydney Smith , and H. Brougham , and originally published by A. Constable . It succeeded immediately in establishing a prestige and authority which (shared with the Quarterly Review ) lasted for over a century. Carlyle described it as ‘a kind of Delphic oracle’. Under the influence of its first editor, Jeffrey , its politics became emphatically Whig, but although it was anxious for reform in many spheres an effort was made to hold a balanced view. Only a section of the journal was reserved for literature, but the views expressed there were highly influential and the few books selected for review were very fully considered. Although Jeffrey perceived the genius of Keats , his veneration for 18th-cent. literature led him to notorious and scathing denouncements of Wordsworth , Coleridge ,...
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