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''The American Review'', alternatively known as ''The American Review: A Whig Journal'' and ''The American Whig Review'', was a New York City-based monthly periodical that published from 1844 to 1852. Published by Wiley and Putnam, it was owned and operated by George H. Colton. ==History== The first issue of ''American Review'' was dated January 1845, though it was likely published as early as October 1844. The timing was purposeful so that it could promote Whig candidate Henry Clay in the presidential election against James K. Polk, who was supported by the ''Democratic Review''.〔Mott, Frank Luther. ''A History of American Magazines''. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1930: 89.〕 In December 1844, Edgar Allan Poe was recommended as an editorial assistant by James Russell Lowell, though Poe was not hired.〔Sova, Dawn B. ''Edgar Allan Poe: A to Z''. New York: Checkmark Books, 2001: 10. ISBN 0-8160-4161-X〕 In May 1846, Poe would review Colton's work in ''The Literati of New York City'', published in ''Godey's Lady's Book''. Poe described Colton's poem "Tecumseh" as "insufferably tedious" but said that the magazine was one of the best of its kind in the United States.〔 ''The American Review'' had the distinction of being the first authorized periodical to print "The Raven" in February 1845. It was printed with the pseudonym "Quarles".〔Silverman, Kenneth in it's Volume One issue ''Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance''. New York: Harper Perennial, 1991: 530. ISBN 0-06-092331-8〕 Another well-known poem by Poe, "Ulalume," also was first published (anonymously) in the ''American Review''. Other works by Poe published in the ''American Review'' include "Some Words with a Mummy" and "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar."〔Silverman, Kenneth. ''Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance''. New York: Harper Perennial, 1991: 294. ISBN 0-06-092331-8〕 ''The American Review'' ceased publication in 1852, unable to continue paying its contributors.〔The American Whig Review, 1845-1852: its history and literary contents" by Donald Frank Andrews. University of Tennessee, 1977〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The American Review: A Whig Journal」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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