ABSTRACT
Concerning the character of ACADEMIC, a Liverpool publication that appeared in twenty-two numbers in 1821, its subtitle tells us virtually all we know (and all we need to know): Academic: A Periodical Publication, comprising Original Essays, Reviews, Poems, &c. . It seems to have been, like Leigh Hunt’s Indicator (on which it may have been modeled), a little magazine of belles lettres, and it probably lasted as long as its unknown editor(s) had anything to say. The sole review from it that requires inclusion in this collection is that of Coleridge’s Christabel volume, written five years after publication of a volume that the elders of the young academic editor had already rejected.
