ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
‘The Quarterly Review’ was founded by:
A
Walter Scott
B
Byron
C
Coleridge
D
Thomas De Quincey
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Quarterly Review was a literary and political periodical founded in March 1809 by London publishing house John Murray.

Detailed explanation-2: -The article was published under a collective pseudonym but was mainly written by Lockhart. In 1818 Lockhart met Sir Walter Scott, the “elder statesman” of European Romanticism.

Detailed explanation-3: -What Is a Quarterly Review? A quarterly review is the process of review your past quarter and planning the next quarter. You do a quarter every 3 months during the year so four times a year.

Detailed explanation-4: -The first editor, Gifford, brought with him several clever writers from the Anti‐Jacobin, including Canning and Frere. The Quarterly, unlike the Edinburgh, supported the ‘Lake School’ and Byron, although it fiercely condemned Keats, Hunt, Hazlitt, Lamb, Shelley, and later Tennyson, Macaulay, Dickens and C.

Detailed explanation-5: -The British Quarterly Review was a periodical published between 1845 and 1886. It was founded by Robert Vaughan, out of dissatisfaction with the editorial line of the Eclectic Review under Edward Miall.

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