The Oxford Companion to English Literature | Review
Review, a periodical started by
Defoe
in
1704
, under the title of A Weekly Review of the Affairs of France, which after various transformations became A Review of the State of the British Nation in
1707
; it lasted until
1713
. It was a non-partisan paper, an organ of the commercial interests of the nation; it appeared thrice weekly and was written, practically in its entirety, by Defoe himself, who expressed in it his opinions on all current political topics, thus initiating the political leading article. It also had lighter articles on love, marriage, gambling, etc.; Defoe's attitude to his readers was that he strove to ‘wheedle them in (if it may be allowed that expression) to the knowledge of the world; who, rather than take more pains, would be content with their ignorance, and search into nothing’.
A quarterly magazine of poetry and criticism, founded in
1962
and edited by
Ian
Hamilton
. It ran for 30...
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