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.”