ABSTRACT
The NEW ANNUAL REGISTER (1781-1826), following a common publishing practice of the period, was not a continuation of the venerable Annual Register (1758 to date) but a rival of it with a different political bias. The New Annual Register was founded by Dr. Andrew Kippis and published by G.G. and J. Robinson, publishers of many liberal works including Godwin’s Enquiry Concerning Political Justice. Godwin, in fact, served his teacher Dr. Kippis as writer of the historical section of the New Annual Register for several years. Appearing in a historical record of the events of the past year, the notices in the chapter on “Domestic Literature” in the New Annual Register cannot be taken seriously as reviews, but they do give some indication of the attention given to a particular writer relative to his contemporaries by a single observer attempting to record the production of the year. For this reason, The Romantics Reviewed includes relevant pages that notice several volumes by Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Byron.
