1841 Walt Whitman, Whittier, Longfellow 1stEd. U.S. Magazine & Democratic Review
AND
DEMOCRATIC REVIEW
New Series
Volume IX. 1841
Six bound issues
July-December, 1841
WITH CONTRIBUTIONS
BY
Walt Whitman, J. G. Whittier, Henry W. Longfellow, et al.
New York: J. & H.G. Langley, December, 1841.
6 bound issues (without wrappers).
Hardcover. Half leather with leather spine and corners, octavo (5 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches), iv., 612 pages, five steel engraved portraits (a 6th portrait is missing).
The volume includes several first appearances of writings by Walt Whitman, J.G. Whittier, H.W. Longfellow. Also, a lengthy critical review of Stephens’ Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chaipas and Yucatan, etc.
Antiquities of Central America
Armstrong's History of the Late War, &c.
Bervance; or, Father and Son, by WALTER WHITMAN. FIRST APPEARANCE.
Channing's, Dr., Recent Writings
Chess Players, the, by JAMES K. ARMSTRONG
Death in the School-room -a fact, by WALTER WHITMAN, [listed as W. W.]. First printing of Whitman’s earliest known short story.
Democracy, by J. G. WHITTIER, Likely first appearance.
Dream, a, by W. C. BRYANT
Edward Livingston and his Code: A System of Penal Law for the State of Louisiana
Eminent Liberals in Europe-Magnus Crusenstolpe
First Meeting of Jefferson and Burr
Free Trade
God's-Acre, by H. W. LONGFELLOW. FIRST APPEARANCE.
Grassmere and Rydal Water, by MRS. SIGOURNEY
History of Uncle Sam's Patriarchal System of Government Hurrah for a War with England
Irving, Washington, Review of his Writings
Landscape Gardening and Rural Architecture
Letters of Madame du Deffand to Walpole and Voltaire
Moral of the Veto
Note upon Armstrong's History of the Late War
Poetry of the West, the; including Lines Written on the Rocky Mountains, by Albert Pike.
Penny-Postman, the, No. I. To John Tyler, &c.:
No. II. To Martin Van Buren, late President of the
United States, [with a fine engraving]
Political Portraits, with pen and pencil:
No. 24-Garret D. Wall, of New Jersey, [with a fine engraving]
No. 25. Henry Hubbard, of New Hampshire, [with a fine engraving]
No. 26. Francis Thomas, of Maryland, [with a fine engraving]
No. 27. Marcus Morton, of Massachusetts, [with a fine engraving]
Political Proscription
Repeal Question, the
Revolutionary Secret Societies of Italy
Rights and Government, by a PHRENOLOGIST
Shipwreck, the, by MRS. L. H. SIGOURNEY
Short Argument on the Right of Instruction
Sonnet. View from Hallock's Hill near Plattsburgh, by B. F. BUTLER
Terrestrial Magnetism
Voyage across the Atlantic, by the author of "Hope Leslie," &c.
Whig Bankers on Banking and Currency
Wild Frank's Return, by WALTER WHITMAN. FIRST APPEARANCE.
Walt Whitman, who was a practicing journalist, largely writing articles and editing newspapers during the decade of the Democratic Review's greatest distinction in literature, was an enthusiastic supporter and saw the magazine under O'Sullivan's leadership as being "of a profounder quality of talent than any since".
Eager to find new outlets for his own work, especially in a magazine of such quality, Whitman published ten works in the Review during 1841-1845. The include; "Death in the School-Room (a Fact)" (August 1841); "Wild Frank's Return" (November 1841); "Bervance: or, Father and Son" (December 1841).
The United States Magazine and Democratic Review
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The United States Magazine and Democratic Review was a periodical published from 1837 to 1859 by John L. O'Sullivan. Its motto, "The best government is that which governs least", was famously paraphrased by Henry David Thoreau in "Resistance to Civil Government", better known as Civil Disobedience, and is often erroneously attributed to Thomas Jefferson.
History
In 1837, O'Sullivan co-founded and served as editor for The United States Magazine and Democratic Review (generally called the Democratic Review). It was a highly regarded journal meant to champion Jacksonian Democracy, a movement which had usually been disparaged in the more conservative North American Review. The magazine featured political essays, many of them penned by O'Sullivan himself, extolling the virtues of Jacksonian democracy and criticizing what Democrats regarded as the aristocratic pretensions of their opponents. The journal supported Martin Van Buren in the 1840 presidential election (who lost) and James K. Polk in the 1844 election (who won).
As a leading organizer for the Democratic Party, Van Buren paid close attention to party communication media such as newspapers and magazines. They received subsidies in the form of government printing contracts. At an intellectual level, his administration was strongly supported by The United States Magazine and Democratic Review. Its editorials and articles provided the arguments that partisan needed to discuss Democratic Party positions on the Mexican War, slavery, states' rights, and Indian removal.
The Democratic Review was also (perhaps even primarily) a literary magazine, promoting the development of American literature. Some of its regular contributors were Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Elizabeth F. Ellet, and John Greenleaf Whittier, with occasional contributions by William Cullen Bryant, Fanny Kemble, and James Fenimore Cooper. The Review also published some of the early work of Walt Whitman, James Russell Lowell, and Henry David Thoreau. Hawthorne and O'Sullivan became close friends, and Hawthorne had more pieces published in O'Sullivan's magazine than in any other periodical. The Democratic Review was always in financial difficulties since it accepted no advertising and relied on subscriptions and donations to survive. O'Sullivan relinquished his editorial duties for a short time to practice law but continued to write for the magazine.
The magazine is also responsible for coining the term "manifest destiny", referring to the combination of rapid growth of civilization and open space to grow in North America.
CONDITION:
Good. (Covers have moderate edge and corner wear, superficial tears os paper on boards, leather is rubbed and spine lettering and rules are faded.
The front endpaper and pastdowns are heavily spotted and stained and the other endpapers and rear pastedown are also spotted and/or lightly stained. The Contents are complete and intact except for one missing portrait. Many pages have faint or light stains at at the margins, while the portrait and about 60 text pages of the September issue have dark stains on the fore or top margins.
The binding is tight.)
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