Given presentation is based upon periodicals and magazines of Romantic age; which deals with social, political, economic and literary issues of the age. These periodicals and magazines provide a huge platform to writers, poets, essayist, etc.

1. PERIODICALS AND
MAGAZINES OF THE
ROMANTIC AGE.
Prepared by : KAVITABA P. GOHIL
Roll No : 19
Paper – 1 : THE ROMANTIC LITERATURE
M.A (English) : Sem -2
Enrollment No : 2069108420180018
Batch : 2017-19
Email : kavitabaprahaladsinhjigohil@gmail.com
Submitted to : Smt .S. B Gardi, Department of English,
MK Bhavnagar
University

2. •Politics
•Science
•Art &
Contemporary
social concern
Two Major types of periodicals
•Critical writing
•Reviews of
Poets and
their works

3. Popular Periodicals of the age
I. The Gentleman’s Magazine - 1731
II.The Edinburgh Review - 1802
III.Quarterly Review - 1808
IV.Blackwood’s Magazine – 1817
V.Westminster Review – 1824

4. The Gentleman’s Magazine
•Trader’s Monthly Intelligencer
•Edward Cave- sylvanus urban
•200 years-1922
•Term – Magazine
•Samuel Johnson
•Columbia

5. The Edinburgh Review
1775-1776
1733-1776
1802-1929
Whig& Liberal Politics
Rival
Lack poets- wordsworth
Contributors
Sir Walter Scott
William Hazlitt …

6. Quarterly Review
Literary& Political
periodical
1808/9
John Murray
Setup for
William Gifford
Robert Southey
Walter Scott
Ugo Foscolo
Charles Lamb

7. Blackwood’s Magazine
1817-1980
Originally called…
MAGA
Rival
IMP Contributors
George Eliot
S.T.Coleridge
Thomas De Quincy
Joseph Conrad

8. Westminster Review
1824-1914
Philosophical Radicals
James Mill-driving force-
Liberal
James & John Stuart Mill-
Rival
John Chapman & Mary Ann
Evans – 1851
Free thought and Reform
Thomas Huxley
Origin Of Species
2 merge

9. Conclusion…
 The age did not produced a
pamphleteer of the first class like Swift
or Burke, but the turbulence of the
period was clearly marked in the
immense productivity of its political
writers.