Analectic Magazine
The analectic magazine was an American popular magazine, monthly from 1813 to 1820 in Philadelphia appeared.
history
It emerged from the magazine The Select Reviews and Spirit of the Foreign Magazines , founded in 1809 , which was bought by Moses Thomas in 1812. Thomas renamed the paper Analectic Magazine and recruited the editor of his new flagship publishing house, Washington Irving , who, following the success of his History of New York (1809), had become arguably the nation's most renowned writer. Irving carried out his editorial duties - at an annual salary of $ 1,500 - but rather listlessly, only eleven essays appeared from his own pen until his departure in late 1814. He took two of them ( features of an Indian character and Philip of Pokanoket ) in his sketchbook published in 1819 . His other contributions are of a biographical nature (articles about Robert Treat Paine and the naval officers James Lawrence , William Ward Burrows II , Oliver Hazard Perry and David Porter ) or are devoted to literary criticism (including about Thomas Campbell and Lord Byron ). Literary criticism in particular was difficult for Irving to do; the displeasure caused by this profession may have been the reason why he turned it down when John Murray offered him the post of editor of an English magazine years later.
As editor, Irving mainly printed literary mishaps, book reviews, travelogues and biographies, including many reprints from European magazines. As a writer he recruited his New York friends Gulian Crommelin Verplanck (1786–1870) and James Kirke Paulding , among others , who wrote their contributions with V. resp. P. drew. These were in particular biographies of people from political and cultural life, and with the advance of the British-American War increasingly those of American commanders at sea. Paulding in particular was to base his later career on this genre. One of the many patriotic contributions of the paper at this time was the reprint of the poem The Star-Spangled Banner , the later national anthem of the USA , in the November 1814 issue . Although it had appeared sporadically in local daily newspapers before, the publication in the nationally read Analectic Magazine contributed significantly to its distribution.
After Irving's departure and the end of the war, the magazine's popularity declined. It was increasingly limited to nautical topics and appeared from January to December 1816 under the title Analectic Magazine and Naval Chronicle, was then renamed Literary Gazette, or, Journal of Criticism, Science and the Arts in 1820 and ceased to appear the following year.
Web links
- Analectic Magazine - Digital copies from the years 1813–1819 at the HathiTrust Digital Library.
Individual evidence
- ^ Albert Henry Smyth: The Philadelphia Magazines and Their Contributors, 1741-1850. Robert M. Lindsay, Philadelphia 1892. pp. 178-180.
- ^ Smithsonian Institution Research Information System : Catalog entry The Analectic magazine and naval chronicle.