The Dial

…was the music critic of The Dial (1927–29) and of The Nation (1934–36). He then turned to literary criticism, lecturing on this subject at the University of Chicago (1938; 1949–50), and he taught at Bennington College (Vermont) from 1943 through 1961.

In 1840 he helped launch The Dial, first edited by Margaret Fuller and later by himself, thus providing an outlet for the new ideas Transcendentalists were trying to present to America. Though short-lived, the magazine provided a rallying point for the younger members of the school. From his continuing lecture…

…1842 she was editor of The Dial, a magazine launched by the Transcendentalists. She wrote poetry, reviews, and critiques for the quarterly.

…and on the staff of The Dial (1918–20). She was also a member of the U.S. Industrial Relations Commission (1914–16). Her Creative Impulse in Industry appeared in 1918. From 1920 she lived in quiet retirement.

…poets—she became acting editor of The Dial, an influential American journal of literature and arts, and she remained with The Dial until it was discontinued in 1929. Moore’s Collected Poems appeared in 1951. She also published a translation of The Fables of La Fontaine (1954); a volume of critical papers,…

…published and wrote articles for The Dial, the critical literary monthly and organ of the Transcendentalist movement; she also wrote for other periodicals.

…the Transcendentalists started a magazine, The Dial. Its inaugural issue, dated July 1840, carried Thoreau’s poem “Sympathy” and his essay on the Roman poet Aulus Persius Flaccus. The Dial published more of Thoreau’s poems and then, in July 1842, the first of his outdoor essays, “Natural History of Massachusetts.” Though…

…joined the editorial staff of The Dial, a literary and political magazine in New York, for which he wrote a series of articles on “The Modern Point of View and the New Order,” later published in book form as The Vested Interests and the State of the Industrial Arts (1919;…

…New York Monthly Magazine (1824); Dial (1840–44), the organ of the New England essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Transcendental Club (there was a second, literary Dial, 1880–1929); and De Bow’s Review (New Orleans, 1846–80). The cultured weekly Home Journal (1846–1901; then continuing as Town and Country) introduced Swinburne and Balzac to…

…Emerson and Margaret Fuller founded The Dial (1840–44), the prototypal “little magazine” wherein some of the best writings by minor Transcendentalists appeared. The writings of the Transcendentalists and those of contemporaries such as Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, for whom they prepared the ground, represent the first flowering…