Original sentence: The book was immediately successful and soon went into a second edition.The reviews seek to challenge the traditional view of Shakespeare that was established by earlier critics including Samuel Johnson.The second edition was not as fortunate as the first, and he blamed its failure on a bad review by the politically motivated Quarter Review
Edited sentence: Hazlitt's essays seek to challenge the traditional view of Shakespeare that was established by earlier critics including Samuel Johnson.The book was immediately successful in both Britain and the United States, and it soon went into a second edition.The second edition was not as fortunate as the first, and he blamed its failure on a bad review by the politically motivated Quarterly Review