William
Blackwood, a publisher from Edinburgh, started Blackwood's Magazine,
a monthly periodical in April, 1817. Blackwood started the magazine
as a Tory rival to the Whig
supporting Edinburgh Review. The
first editor of the magazine was John Lockhart, who led the campaign
against what he called the Cockney School of Poetry of Leigh
Hunt and William Hazlitt.
In 1821 John Scott, the editor of the London
Magazine, accused Blackwood's Magazine, of libel. A
representative of the journal, J. H. Christie, challenged Scott to
a duel. Scott accepted and died as result of the wounds received during
the fight.
Although
a Tory periodical, Blackwood's Magazine
did support the work of the radical poets, Percy
Bysshe Shelley and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
The magazine ceased publication in 1980.
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