Question

The journals that attacked Keats' Endymion

• A. The Spectator , The Monthly Magazine
• B. Quarterly Review, London Magazine
• C. London Magazine, The Rampler
• D. Black-woods Magazine, Quarterly Review

Answer 1

Answer:

D. Black-woods Magazine, Quarterly Review

Keats’s Endymion (1818) was harshly attacked by contemporary reviewers in some of the most influential journals of the time. The main journals that criticized it were:

1. The Quarterly Review –

   • Reviewer: John Wilson Croker (attributed).

   • Published in April 1818.

   • The review ridiculed Endymion as "imperturbable drivelling idiocy" and mocked Keats’s style as affected and juvenile.

2. Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine –

   • Reviewer: John Gibson Lockhart (believed to be the main critic, though signed under the persona "Z").

   • Published in August 1818.

   • Attacked Keats as a "Cockney poet," criticizing his social class, background, and lack of classical education.