The Dial

The Dial was an American magazine published intermittently from 1840 to 1929. It began as a transcendentalist magazine with Margaret Fuller as its first editor (1840-1842), succeeded by another founder, Ralph Waldo Emerson. In this first form, the magazine remained in publication until 1844.

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1840 - 1929 - Transcendentalist - Margaret Fuller - Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1844

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After a one-year revival in 1860, The Dial resumed publication in 1880 as a political magazine, and it was in this form that Margaret Anderson, soon to be founder of The Little Review, worked for the magazine.

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1860 - 1880 - Margaret Anderson - The Little Review

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Finally, in 1920, Scofield Thayer re-established The Dial as a literary magazine, the form for which it is was most successful and best known. Thayer was a friend of T.S. Eliot's, and under his sway The Dial published remarkable harvests of influential artwork, poetry and fiction, including William Butler Yeats' The Second Coming and the first U.S. publication of The Waste Land. The first year alone saw the appearance of Sherwood Anderson, Djuna Barnes, Kenneth Burke, Hart Crane, E. E. Cummings, Charles Demuth, Kahlil Gibran, Gaston Lachaise, Amy Lowell, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, Odilon Redon, Bertrand Russell, Carl Sandburg, Van Wyck Brooks, and W. B. Yeats.

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1920 - Scofield Thayer - Literary magazine - T.S. Eliot - William Butler Yeats - The Second Coming - U.S. - The Waste Land - Sherwood Anderson - Djuna Barnes - Kenneth Burke - Hart Crane - E. E. Cummings - Charles Demuth - Kahlil Gibran - Gaston Lachaise - Amy Lowell - Marianne Moore - Ezra Pound - Odilon Redon - Bertrand Russell - Carl Sandburg - Van Wyck Brooks - W. B. Yeats

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In this literary phase, The Dial published art as well as poetry and essays, with artists ranging from Vincent van Gogh, Renoir, Henri Matisse, and Odilon Redon on the one hand, through Oskar Kokoschka, Constantin Brancusi, and Edvard Munch, and even to Georgia O'Keeffe and Joseph Stella. The magazine also reported on the cultural life of European capitals, including T. S. Eliot from London, John Eglinton from Dublin, Ezra Pound from Paris, Thomas Mann from Germany, and Hugo von Hofmannsthal from Vienna.

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Vincent van Gogh - Renoir - Henri Matisse - Odilon Redon - Oskar Kokoschka - Constantin Brancusi - Edvard Munch - Georgia O'Keeffe - Joseph Stella - T. S. Eliot - John Eglinton - Ezra Pound - Thomas Mann - Hugo von Hofmannsthal

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The Dial proceeded through a series of editors in these years: Thayer overall from 1920-1926, Gilbert Seldes (1922-23), Kenneth Burke (1923), Alyse Gregory (1923-1925), Marianne Moore (1925-1929). Thayer fell ill in 1927 and without his financial support the magazine fell into financial distress. The Dial ceased publication in July 1929.

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