London Magazine
The London Magazine has been the name of several British literary magazines.
In its first incarnation, the magazine championed many poetic luminaries such as William Wordsworth, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Clare and John Keats. In September, 1821, the first installment of Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater appeared in the journal; these were later published as a book.
In 1900, Harmsworth's Monthly Pictorial Magazine, founded by the then-proprietor of The Daily Mail, Cecil Harmsworth, in 1898, was renamed the London Magazine. This publication continued until 1933, for the last three years of its life being called The New London Magazine. The Australian scholar Sue Thomas referred to it as "an important former...of popular literary tastes in the late Victorian and Edwardian periods".
In 1954, a new periodical was given the name of the London Magazine, largely continuing the tradtion of the acclaimed 1940s periodical New Writing. From 1954 to 1961 The London Magazine was edited by John Lehmann, later by his fellow poet Alan Ross. Its current editor is the poet and critic Sebastian Barker.
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