The American monthly magazine.

Format:

Journal/Periodical

Contributor:

Willis, Nathaniel Parker, 1806-1867.

Series:

Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926.

Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926

Standardized Title:

American monthly magazine (Boston, Mass.).

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--Periodicals.

Literature.

Literature--History and criticism--Periodicals.

Books--Reviews--Periodicals.

Books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (3 v.)

Monthly

Vol. 1, no. 1 (Apr. 1829)-v. 3, no. 4 (July 1831).

Other Title:

American monthly magazine

Place of Publication:

Pierce and Williams Boston, Mass. :

Boston, Massachusetts : Pierce and Williams, 1829.

Notes:

Nathaniel Parker Willis, who at age 23 had already attracted wide-spread attention for his writing, modeled his American monthly magazine after Thomas Campbell's New monthly magazine of London. Filled with essays, stories and sketches, criticism, poetry, and humor, it was one of the most readable and entertaining magazines that had yet appeared in America. Willis wrote a large share of the magazine himself, including the travel sketches which were later to be so popular with his readers, and much literary criticism, especially of the current American poetry. His "Editor's Table" was reminiscent of Blackwood's "Noctes Ambrosianae."

(cont.) Contributors included J. L. Motley and Richard Hildreth, and poets Rufus Dawes, George Lunt, Mrs. Lydia Sigourney, and Albert Pike. Boston was not very friendly to the American monthly, however; many were offended by its affectation, its praise of champagne, and its conceited airs, and Williams himself was excommunicated from his sedate Boston church for attending the theater. The magazine was not a success financially, either, and in July 1831 Willis gave it up. In spite of its problems, however, the American Monthly provided a pleasant change from the usually dull writing of the times. Cf. "American periodicals, 1741-1900."

Merged into the New York mirror in 1833.

Editor: 1829-1831, N. P. Willis.

Reproduction of original from Yale University Libraries.

Sabin no. 1157.

Cited in:

RLIN, CTRG06-S30

OCLC:

367772582