American Review: A Whig Journal
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The American Review, alternatively known as American Review: A Whig Journal and American Whig Review, was a New York City-based monthly periodical. Published by Wiley and Putnam, it was owned and operated by George H. Colton. Its first issue was published in January of 1845.
In December 1844, Colton hired Edgar Allan Poe as an editorial assistant on the recommendation of James Russel Lowell.[1] In May 1846, Poe would review Colton's work in The Literati of New York City, published in Godey's Lady's Book. Poe described Colton's poem "Tecumseh" as "insufferably tedious" but said that the magazine was one of the best of its kind in the United States.[2]
The American Review had the distinction of being the first authorized periodical to print "The Raven" in Feburary of 1845 (it had previously appeared on January 29 of that year in the New York Evening Mirror. presumably taken from an early plate of the American Review). It was printed with the pseudonym "Quarles." Another well-known poem by Poe, "Ulalume," also was first published (anonymously) in the American Review. Other works of Poe's include "Some Words with a Mummy" and "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar."[3]
The American Review ceased publication in 1849, unable to continue paying its contributors.[4]
[edit] See also
Other American journals that Edgar Allan Poe was involved with include:
- Broadway Journal
- Burton's Magazine
- Godey's Lady's Book
- Graham's Magazine
- Southern Literary Messenger
[edit] References
- ^ Sova, Dawn B. Edgar Allan Poe: A to Z. Checkmark Books, 2001. p. 10
- ^ Sova, Dawn B. Edgar Allan Poe: A to Z. Checkmark Books, 2001. p. 10
- ^ Silverman, Kenneth. Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance. Harper Perennial, 1991. p. 294
- ^ Sova, Dawn B. Edgar Allan Poe: A to Z. Checkmark Books, 2001. p. 10
