ABSTRACT
The ‘Review of Tremaine’, one of the highlights of the Rejected Articles, sees Patmore, the hapless ‘Tims’, victim of much acerbic Blackwoodian drollery 1 strike back in a successful parody of Blackwood’s vituperative handling of the ‘Cockney school’. From the October 1817 relaunch of the failing magazine which included the vituperative ‘On the Cockney School of Poetry. No.I’, Maga poured forth a stream of mordantly amusing personal satire on the various members of the iniquitous ‘Cockney crew’. The attacks spread from Hunt to Hazlitt, Keats and, eventually, the formerly favoured contributor P. G. Patmore. Here Patmore seeks his revenge; the generally respectful tone of the Rejected Articles is absent from the ‘Review of Tremaine’. The tone of the piece is much closer to the partisan spirit of much Romantic period parody. And if not quite an executioner, Patmore manages to draw blood.
