The Literary Magnet

Its primary emphasis shifted from prose to poetry under Watts, who managed to get contributions from several notable poets of the day.

[2] The Literary Magnet was started as a weekly magazine in 1824 with the full title The Literary Magnet of the Belles Lettres, Science, and the Fine Arts, by co-editors Samuel Egerton Brydges and his son Egerton Anthony Brydges under the joint pseudonym Tobias Merton (perhaps an anagram of their names).

[2] This was published by Charles Knight, with the full title changed to The Literary Magnet, or Monthly Journal of the Belles Lettres.

It consisted of just three monthly issues (January to March 1828), which were described by Professor Ted Ellis as "poorly written".

[5] For the first four volumes of the second series (1826–1827), Watts managed to get contributions from a number of poets at the height of their popularity, including John Clare, Thomas Hood, Felicia Hemans, Mary and William Howitt, Mary Russell Mitford, William Lisle Bowles, Maria Jane Jewsbury,[6] Margaret Hodson, Derwent Conway, Jeremiah Holmes Wiffen, Margaret Cornwell Baron Wilson, and Cornelius Webbe.