Title
The American Review: A Whig Journal
Coverage
New York
Publisher
Wiley and Putnam
Date
February 1845
Subject
Volume 1, number 2
Description
The American Review: A Whig Journal was established in January 1845 to oppose the policies of newly elected Democrat James K. Polk. Like its political competitor The Democratic Review, it contained literature and poetry. This issue had the distinction of being the first periodical to publish “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe, under the pseudonym “Quarles.”