Port Folio (magazine)

Port Folio was a Philadelphia literary and political magazine, published 1801-1812 by Joseph Dennie and Asbury Dickens. Dennie wrote under the pen name of Oliver Oldschool. Many other contributors to the magazine wrote under pseudonyms, including members of the Federalist Party.^[1] Paul Allen (February 15, 1775 – August 18, 1826), a graduate of Brown University, was hired about 1800 as an editor.^[2] After Dennie's death in 1812, Nicholas Biddle, who was already a lterary contributor and patron, became editor, but only until 1814. Charles Jared Ingersoll, a non-practicing lawyer, was also a contributor and patron.^[3]

References

1. Kerber, Linda K. Kerber and Walter John Morris (1966-67). "Politics and Literature: The Adams Family and the Port Folio". The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series 23 (3): 450–476. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1919240. Retrieved 2010-06-25. "The most influential of early American magazines was the Port Folio, a journal of politics and literature published in Philadelphia by Joseph Dennie and Asbury Dickens between 1801 and 1812."

2. Cutright, Paul Russell (July 1982). Contributions of Philadelphia to Lewis and Clark History. Portland, Oregon: Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation, Inc. pp. 33–35. ISBN 0967888700. "Paul Allen (1775-1826), a graduate of Brown University, had obtained employment with Port Folio" after coming to Philadelphia in about 1800."

3. Burt, Nathaniel (1999). The Perennial Philadelphians: The Anatomy of an American Aristocracy. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

4. Ellis, Harold Milton. Joseph Dennie and His Circle: A Study in American Literature from 1792 to 1812. Bulletin of the University of Texas, No. 40; Studies in English No. 3. Austin, TX: University of Texas, July 15, 1915; Rept. N.Y.: AMS Press, 1971. 285 pages.

Supplemental Bibliography

1. Rothman, Irving N. Alexander Wilson's Forest Adventure: the Sublime and the Satirical in Wilson's Poem 'The Foresters.'" Journal of the Society in the Bibliography of Natural History [British Museum] 6 (1973):142-54. [The Port Folio]

2. Rothman, Irving N. "An Imitation of Boileau's Fourth Satire in the American Republic [in The Port Folio]." Revue de Litérature Comparée 53 (Jan.-March 1979): 76-85. [The Port Folio]

3. Rothman, Irving N. "John Trumbull's Parody of Spenser's Epithalamium," The Yale University Library Gazette 47 (April 1973): 193-215. [The Port Folio]

4. Rothman, Irving N. “Joseph Dennie, a Sceptic, and Philip Freneau, a Celebrant, on Ballooning in Early America.” Y2002 Annual Report of the Institute for Space Systems Operations. Houston: ISSO, 2003. 118-23. [The Port Folio]

5. Rothman, Irving N. “Niagara Falls and The Port Folio.” Aldus [University of Houston] 11 (November 1973): 242-54.[The Port Folio]

6. Rothman, Irving N. "Structure and Theme in Samuel Ewing's Satire, the 'American Miracle,'" American Literature 40 (Nov. 1968):294-308. [The Port Folio]

7. Rothman, Irving N. "Two Juvenalian Satires by John Quincy Adams." Early American Literature 6 (1971): 234-51.

8. Rothman, Irving N. Verse Satire in the Port Folio, an Early American Magazine. Edited by Joseph Dennie, 1801–1812. Diss. University of Pittsburgh, 1967. 226 pages.