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The Dial

The Dial was an American magazine published intermittently from 1840 to 1929. In its first form, from 1840 to 1844, it served as the chief publication of the Transcendentalists. From the 1880s to 1919 it was revived as a political review and literary criticism magazine. From 1920 to 1929 it was an influential outlet for modernist literature in English.…

Politics, Modernist literary magazine & Transcendentalist journal

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Founded
1840
Categories
Politics, literature
Country
United States
Final issue
1929
Language
English

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Transcendentalist journal

Political review and literary criticism magazine

Modernist literary magazine

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The Dial

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Triples350
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The Dial

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related to Notable contributors by volume · 193
The Dial → Adolf Dehn, Adolphe Dehn, Alexander Archipenko, Alfeo Faggi, Alfred Kreymborg, Alyse Gregory, Amy Lowell, Ananda Coomaraswamy, Anatole France, André Derain, Aristide Maillol, Arthur Dove, Arthur Rimbaud, Arthur Schnitzler, Arthur Wilson, Auguste Renoir, Auguste Rodin, Augustus John, Benedetto Croce, Bertrand Russell
related to Modernist literary magazine · 39
The Dial → Amy Lowell, Arthur Wilson, Bertrand Russell, Carl Sandburg, Charles Demuth, Cummings, Djuna Barnes, Dr, Eliot, Eliot's, Eliot's The Waste Land, Ezra Pound, Gaston Lachaise, Hart Crane, In, James Sibley Watson Jr, Kahlil Gibran, Kenneth Burke, Lloyds Bank, Marianne Moore
related to Political review and literary criticism magazine · 34
The Dial → After, Although Chicago, Although The Dial, Bourne's, Browne, Chicago, Control, During, Emerson, Francis, Francis Browne, Francis Fisher Browne, Fuller's Dial, He, In, It, Johnson, Johnson's Dial, Margaret Anderson, Martyn Johnson
related to Editorship of Margaret Fuller · 31
The Dial → American, Born, Cambridge, Combining, During, Emerson, Founded, Fuller, Fuller’s, In, Man, Margaret Fuller, Massachusetts, Men, Mystical Experience, Nineteenth Century, Recollection, Ripley, She, The Great Lawsuit
related to The Dial Award · 18
The Dial → Cummings1926, Devil, Dial Award, Eight Dial Awards, Eliot1923, Ezra Pound1928, God, In June, January, Kenneth Burke, Marianne Moore1925, Sherwood Anderson, Sherwood Anderson1922, Thayer, The, Van Wyck Brooks1924, Watson, William Carlos Williams1927
related to External links · 14
The Dial → American Transcendentalism Web, Full, HathiTrustEditorials, History, Internet Archive, Internet ArchiveThe Dial, LibriVoxThe Dial, Pennsylvania, Thoreau Institute, Thoreau's Life, University, Virginia Commonwealth UniversityWorks, Walden Woods, Writings
Categories · 1
The Dial → Politics, literature
Country · 1
The Dial → United States
Final issue · 1
The Dial → 1929
Founded · 1
The Dial → 1840

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dial magazine vol fuller paul published journal thayer william first eliot january moore thomas july time anderson ezra pound publication

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The DialCategoriesPolitics, literature1.00infobox
The DialCountryUnited States1.00infobox
The DialFinal issue19291.00infobox
The DialFounded18401.00infobox
The DialLanguageEnglish1.00infobox
The Dialis aliterary and philosophical journal that served as an outlet for Transcendentalists to convey their thoughts and ideas.Founded in 1840 by major Transcendentalist figures0.90text
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in whose leavesinstance ofhardly even0.80text
flowers the suddenly awakened sleeper is instantly apprised not what part of dead timeinstance ofhardly even0.80text
but what state of lifeinstance ofhardly even0.80text
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