The United States literary gazette
Description
- Language(s)
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English
- Published
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Boston, Mass. : Cummings, Hilliard & Co., 1824-1826.
- Note
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Title from caption.
Begun in 1824, this literary miscellany was first edited by a brilliant young educator, James G. Carter. In less than a year, he was succeeded by Theophilus Parsons, who enlarged the magazine and added an eight-page "Literary Advertiser." Devoted primarily to literary news, the semimonthly Gazette contained book reviews, publishers' announcements, current news, and miscellany, but it is most interesting now because of its excellent poetry, including some by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and William Cullen Bryant. Longfellow, who was then a student at Bowdoin, contributed some of his early verse, as well as four prose sketches under the title of "The Lay Monastery," and Bryant contributed more of his poetry to the Gazette than to any other magazine, including his "Rizpah," which appeared in the first number. Other contributors included J. G. Percival, R. H. Dana, Rufus Dawes, Grenville Mellen, and John A. Jones.
Imprint varies: vol. 1-2, Boston, Mass. : Cummings, Hillard, & Co.; v. 3-4, Boston, Mass. : H. Gray.
- Physical Description
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4 v. ;
24-26 cm.
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