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It was conceived as a rival to the Whig supporting '' Edinburgh Review '' but compared to the rather staid tone of '' The Quarterly Review '', the other main Tory work, Maga was ferocious and combative. This is due primarily to the work its principal writer John Wilson who wrote under the Pseudonym of Christopher North. Never trusted with the editorship he nevertheless wrote much of the magazine along with the other major contributor John Lockhart . Their mixture of satire, reviews and criticism both barbed and insightful was extremely popular and the magazine quickly gained a large audience For all its conservative credentials the magazine published the works of dangerous radicals of British Romanticism such as Percy Bysshe Shelley and Samuel Taylor Coleridge . Through Wilson the magazine was a keen supporter of William Wordsworth , parodied the Byron mania common in Europe and angered John Keats , Leigh Hunt and William Hazlitt by referring to their works as the "Cockney School of Poetry". The controversy causing style of the magazine got it into trouble when in 1821 John Scott, the editor of the '' London Magazine '', fought a duel with Jonathan Henry Christie over Libel lous statements in the magazine. John Scott was shot and killed. John Wilson was by far the most important writer for the magazine and gave it much of its tone, popularity and notoriety. By the amongst those in Colonial Service . It finally ended in 1980, remaining in the Blackwood family its entire history. Important contributors included: George Eliot , Joseph Conrad , John Buchan , James Hogg , Thomas De Quincey , Elizabeth Clementine Stedman , and Margaret Oliphant . EXTERNAL LINKS |
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