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unusual facts about William Maginn


William Maginn

When its short career was run, he helped to found in 1827 the ultra Tory Standard, a newspaper that he edited along with a fellow graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, Stanley Lees Giffard; he also wrote for the more scandalous Sunday paper, The Age.


Grantley Berkeley

Berkeley had brutally assaulted magazine publisher James Fraser over a review William Maginn wrote of Berkeley's novel Berkeley Castle, and Maginn had called him out.

On Translating Homer

He adds polite comments on William Maginn's Homeric Ballads (which first appeared in Fraser's Magazine, where Arnold intended to publish these lectures).


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