ABSTRACT
every study of the British reception of a foreign literature mentions the importance of the Foreign Quarterly Review. It ran for twenty years (1827-1846), longer than any other nineteenth-century review devoted exclusively or principally to the consideration of foreign thought and foreign literature. It included among its contributors many men who were prominent in their own day, and many whose reputations have survived the intervening century. The Foreign Quarterly sought to be the Edinburgh or Quarterly of its own special field, and any examination of the articles contained in its thirty-seven volumes will impress one with the extent of its success. It was established as a source of information on contemporary foreign literature, and its main importance lies in the articles which developed this purpose. At the same time it printed articles on a number of other subjects: on the Greek and Latin classics, on ancient and modern literatures of the Near and Far East, on medieval French and English poetry, on architecture, music, medicine, and the sciences. Many articles discuss England’s position abroad, particularly in India; others plunge into religious controversy.
