John Gibson Lockhart Quote

It is strange that no one seems to think it at all necessary to say a single word about another new school of poetry which has of late sprung up among us. This school has not, I believe, as yet received any name; but if I may be permitted to have the honour of christening it, it may henceforth be referred to by the designation of The Cockney School.


Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, October 1817, p. 38.


It is strange that no one seems to think it at all necessary to say a single word about another new school of poetry which has of late sprung up...

It is strange that no one seems to think it at all necessary to say a single word about another new school of poetry which has of late sprung up...

It is strange that no one seems to think it at all necessary to say a single word about another new school of poetry which has of late sprung up...

It is strange that no one seems to think it at all necessary to say a single word about another new school of poetry which has of late sprung up...