{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}} {{italic title}} The '''''Retrospective Review''''' was an English periodical published from 1820 to 1828. It was founded by Henry Southern, who edited it to 1826, as well as contributing. From 1827 to 1828 Nicholas Harris Nicolas was co-editor with Southern.<ref name="ODNB">{{cite ODNB|id=26051|title=Southern, Henry|first=R. M.|last=Healey}}</ref>
It concentrated on Early Modern English literature;<ref name="ODNB"/> John Gross saw it as presaging later academic literary criticism.<ref>{{cite book|last=Gross|first=John|authorlink=John Gross|title=The Rise and Fall of the Man of Letters |year=1991|publisher=Penguin Books|isbn=978-0140144130|page=26}}</ref> Contributors included:
*George Frederick Beltz<ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Beltz, George Frederick|volume=4}}</ref> *James Crossley<ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Crossley, James|volume=13}}</ref> *Charles Wentworth Dilke;<ref name="ODNB"/> *William Ford<ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Ford, William (1771-1832)|volume=19}}</ref> *Basil Montagu<ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Montagu, Basil|volume=38}}</ref> *William Johnson Fox;<ref name="ODNB"/> *John Hamilton Reynolds;<ref name="ODNB"/> *William Stevenson<ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Stevenson, William (1772-1829)|volume=54}}</ref> *Thomas Noon Talfourd.<ref name="ODNB"/>
The title was revived in the 1850s by the publisher John Russell Smith.<ref>{{cite book|title=Dialogues, Poems, Songs, and Ballads|url=https://archive.org/details/dialoguespoemss00wheegoog|year=1839|publisher=J.R. Smith|page=[https://archive.org/details/dialoguespoemss00wheegoog/page/n45 37]}}</ref>
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