The Anthology Club , or Anthology Society , was a literary society based in Boston, Massachusetts by the Rev. William Emerson , father of Ralph Waldo Emerson . It operated from 1804 until 1811.
7-770: The society organized in response to the first publication, and first failure for want of patronage, of the Monthly Anthology . As recorded in the History of the Boston Athenaeum , an enterprising firm of publishers, "being desirous that the work should be continued, applied to the Rev. William Emerson , a clergyman of the place, distinguished for energy and literary taste; and by his exertions several gentlemen of Boston and its vicinity, conspicuous for talent and zealous for literature, were induced to engage in conducting
14-597: The Monthly Anthology and Boston Review , or Magazine of Polite Literature , and had contributors including John Quincy Adams , Daniel Webster , and many scholars. However, with the death of Emerson in 1811, the Anthology ceased publication. The famous North American Review , which started bimonthly publication in 1815, under the direction of the Anthology Club, is generally considered a revival of
21-538: The earlier magazine. The Boston Athenæum is an outgrowth of the Anthology Club. Monthly Anthology The Monthly Anthology and Boston Review was a miscellaneous magazine published by the Anthology Club of Boston, Massachusetts , from 1804 to 1811. The more famous North American Review is generally considered to be its successor. Oliver Wendell Holmes describes the magazine thus, in his disquisition on Ralph Waldo Emerson : "The Anthology
28-645: The literature of the period." Early club members included Samuel Cooper Thacher , Joseph Stevens Buckminster , and Joseph Tuckerman , pastors of churches in Boston and vicinity, John Sylvester John Gardiner , the rector of Trinity Church, president of the club throughout the whole period of its existence, and one of the most frequent contributors to its periodical, and William Tudor . Later members included Charles Stewart Dana , Alexander Hill Everett , and John Collins Warren . [William Smith Shaw, President John Adams' former Personal Secretary.] The club's publication,
35-666: The marching tramp of Johnson ; translations that might have been signed with the name of Creech, and Odes to Sensibility, and the like, which recalled the syrupy sweetness and languid trickle of Laura Matilda 's sentimentalities. It talked about 'the London Reviewers' with a kind of provincial deference. It printed articles with quite too much of the license of Swift and Prior for the Magazines of to-day. But it had opinions of its own, and would compare well enough with The Gentleman's Magazine ...."" This article about
42-409: The work, and for this purpose they formed themselves into a Society. This Society was not completely organized until the year 1805, when Dr. Gardiner was elected President, and William Emerson Vice-President. The Society thus formed maintained its existence with reputation for about six years, and issued ten octavo volumes from the press, constituting one of the most lasting and honorable monuments of
49-548: Was the literary precursor of the North American Review , and the theological herald of the Christian Examiner . Like all first beginnings it showed many marks of immaturity. It mingled extracts and original contributions, theology and medicine, with all manner of literary chips and shavings. It had Magazine ways that smacked of Sylvanus Urban ; leading articles with balanced paragraphs which recalled
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