# Retrospective Review

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The '''''Retrospective Review''''' was an English periodical published from 1820 to 1828. It was founded by [Henry Southern](/source/Henry_Southern_(journalist)), who edited it to 1826, as well as contributing. From 1827 to 1828 [Nicholas Harris Nicolas](/source/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](/source/Early_Modern) English literature;<ref name="ODNB"/> [John Gross](/source/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](/source/George_Frederick_Beltz)<ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Beltz, George Frederick|volume=4}}</ref>
*[James Crossley](/source/James_Crossley_(author))<ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Crossley, James|volume=13}}</ref>
*[Charles Wentworth Dilke](/source/Charles_Wentworth_Dilke);<ref name="ODNB"/> 
*[William Ford](/source/William_Ford_(bookseller))<ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Ford, William (1771-1832)|volume=19}}</ref>
*[Basil Montagu](/source/Basil_Montagu)<ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Montagu, Basil|volume=38}}</ref>  
*[William Johnson Fox](/source/William_Johnson_Fox);<ref name="ODNB"/>
*[John Hamilton Reynolds](/source/John_Hamilton_Reynolds);<ref name="ODNB"/>
*[William Stevenson](/source/William_Stevenson_(Scottish_writer))<ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Stevenson, William (1772-1829)|volume=54}}</ref>
*[Thomas Noon Talfourd](/source/Thomas_Noon_Talfourd).<ref name="ODNB"/>

The title was revived in the 1850s by the publisher [John Russell Smith](/source/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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Category:1820 establishments in the United Kingdom
Category:1828 disestablishments in the United Kingdom
Category:Defunct literary magazines published in the United Kingdom
Category:Magazines established in 1820
Category:Magazines disestablished in 1828

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