The Quarterly Review magazine was founded in 1809 to act as a counterbalance to the Whiggish Edinburgh Review. The founders included George Canning the poet Robert Southey & the poet & novelist Sir Walter Scott & it was published by the celebrated London publisher John Murray. It soon became one of the most important journals of the 19th Century. The aims of the revived Quarterly Review are the same as that of its illustrious forebear – to draw upon a wide range of opinions to provide counter-intuitive writing for people who like to think & to enhance & enliven literary philosophical & political debate.