After reading several blogs from my fellow peers and skimming through all of The English Review magazines, I felt as though there wasn't any real reason why certain poems and/or short stories were placed together or right after one another. I noticed that every issue - there are 15 issues with a special supplement - beings with a title page that is blue and has either all or most of the contributing authors on it. There is nothing special about the title page, everything is generally written in uppercase letters and in the same "Plain Jane" typeface. Then the magazine starts off with advertisements that generally speak about new books that are coming out or have just been released. There are other advertisements that are trying to sell pens, ink, desks, or other writers materials. Generally speaking the advertisements are directed to those who enjoy reading or writing or maybe even the serious literary critic. I also noticed that a great deal of the work in the magazines are short stories or essays. I noticed that there were no pictures, except for the advertisements that had maybe a grand total of 20 pictures of the 15 issues. I began to feel that there was no bibliographic coding in this particular magazine. But then I remembered that the bibliographic coding is any and all context of the writings. So maybe the editor of this particular magazine were trying to reach a more literary audience as opposed to an audience that Blast, for example, was trying to reach with their bold typeface and drawings. Maybe this is why most of the contributing authors were already well established, for instance, Fyodor Dostoevsky, H. G. Wells, and Ezra Pound.
I think that if the works in The English Review were taken out and put into an anthology I would not read the works differently, since the magazine already feels like an anthology with some advertisements thrown in for flavoring.
