ABSTRACT
The MONTHLY CENSOR, subtitled more descriptively General Review of Domestic and Foreign Literature, was published at London from June 1822 through February 1823 – hardly ranking it as a major voice in British criticism. Yet, conducted, as it apparently was, by politically conservative younger critics who could refer to the early quarrels between Wordsworth and the Edinburgh Review as events in the distant past, the Monthly Censor’s reviews index the change in taste, attitude, and vocabulary that had transpired since the turn of the century.
