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Keats published in The Examiner before anyone knew his name. Hazlitt made his reputation in the reviews before he made it anywhere else. Eliot built The Criterion into the centre of serious criticism in English. The great reviews (the Edinburgh, the London Magazine, the early TLS) were where careers began, where arguments entered the record, where a writer first became a writer in the eyes of the world.
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