The

was founded in 1814 as a virulently Tory publication, which opposed liberal journals such as the

and Richard Phillips's

. In 1821, its commercially astute publisher Henry Colburn appointed the Whig poet Thomas Campbell as editor and changed the magazine's name to the

. Under Campbell, and his assistant Cyrus Redding (who did most of the actual editorial work), the

became considerably less political and, perhaps because of the high remuneration that Colburn offered to contributors, the quality of its writing improved greatly. It contained reviews, miscellaneous essays, biographical sketches, stories, poetry, and travel writing. Its most significant…

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Citation: Higgins, David. "The New Monthly Magazine". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 22 October 2006 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=1682, accessed 23 November 2024.]

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