The North-American Review and Miscellaneous Journal

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Title

The North-American Review and Miscellaneous Journal

Coverage

Boston

Publisher

Wells and Lilly

Date

May 1815

Subject

Volume 1, number 1

Description

America’s first purely literary magazine was the long-running and influential North American Review. It became the place for American scholars to appear in print. In 1819, it published what is widely considered to be the first great American poem, William Cullen Bryant’s “Thanatopsis.”