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22-1210: Oxford Poetry is a literary magazine based in Oxford , England. It is currently edited by Luke Allan. The magazine is published by Partus Press . Founded in 1910 by Basil Blackwell , its editors have included Dorothy L. Sayers , Aldous Huxley , Robert Graves , Vera Brittain , Kingsley Amis , Anthony Thwaite , John Fuller and Bernard O'Donoghue . Among the authors to have appeared in Oxford Poetry are Fleur Adcock , A. Alvarez , W. H. Auden , Anne Carson , Nevill Coghill , David Constantine , Robert Crawford , Carol Ann Duffy , Elaine Feinstein , Graham Greene , Seamus Heaney , W. N. Herbert , Geoffrey Hill , Christopher Isherwood , Elizabeth Jennings , Jenny Joseph , Stephen Knight , Ronald Knox , Philip Larkin , Cecil Day-Lewis , Michael Longley , Louis MacNeice , Peter McDonald , Christopher Middleton , Andrew Motion , Paul Muldoon , Tom Paulin , Mario Petrucci , Craig Raine , Jo Shapcott , Stephen Spender , George Szirtes , J. R. R. Tolkien , Susan Wicks and Charles Wright . As well as publishing two issues per year,

44-596: The Daily News of London, but contributed a series of notable articles to the Athenaeum . The poet and critic Thomas Kibble Hervey succeeded Dilke as editor and served from 1846 until his resignation due to ill health in 1853. Historian and traveller William Hepworth Dixon succeeded Hervey in 1853, and remained editor until 1869. George Darley was a staff critic during the early years, and Gerald Massey contributed many literary reviews – mainly on poetry – during

66-938: The Edinburgh Review in 1802. Other British reviews of this period included the Westminster Review (1824), The Spectator (1828), and Athenaeum (1828). In the United States, early journals included the Philadelphia Literary Magazine (1803–1808), the Monthly Anthology (1803–11), which became the North American Review , the Yale Review (founded in 1819), The Yankee (1828–1829) The Knickerbocker (1833–1865), Dial (1840–44) and

88-539: The Yale Review (founded in 1819) did not; thus the Yale journal is the oldest literary magazine in continuous publication. Begun in 1889, Poet Lore is considered the oldest journal dedicated to poetry. By the end of the century, literary magazines had become an important feature of intellectual life in many parts of the world. One of the most notable 19th century literary magazines of the Arabic-speaking world

110-479: The Athenaeum and started submitting her reviews regularly by 1854. She rated highly novels that showed character morality and were also entertaining. She criticized the " fallen woman " theme, which was common in Victorian literature . During the second half of the 1850s, Jewsbury was entrusted with editing the "New Novels" section. A letter from J. S. Cotton, reportedly printed during 1905, definitively tells of

132-438: The Athenaeum received contributions from Lord Kelvin . During the early 20th century, its contributors included Max Beerbohm , Edmund Blunden , T. S. Eliot , Robert Graves , Thomas Hardy , Aldous Huxley , Julian Huxley , Katherine Mansfield , George Santayana , Edith Sitwell and Virginia Woolf . From 1849 to 1880, Geraldine Jewsbury contributed more than 2300 reviews. She was one of very few women who reviewed for

154-761: The National Endowment for the Arts , which created a committee to distribute support money for this burgeoning group of publishers called the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines (CCLM). This organisation evolved into the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP). Many prestigious awards exist for works published in literary magazines including the Pushcart Prize and the O. Henry Awards . Literary magazines also provide many of

176-1083: The Arts, and New Ideas , which began publication in 1951 in England, the Paris Review , which was founded in 1953, The Massachusetts Review and Poetry Northwest , which were founded in 1959, X Magazine , which ran from 1959 to 1962, and the Denver Quarterly , which began in 1965. The 1970s saw another surge in the number of literary magazines, with a number of distinguished journals getting their start during this decade, including Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art , Ploughshares , The Iowa Review , Granta , Agni , The Missouri Review , and New England Review . Other highly regarded print magazines of recent years include The Threepenny Review , The Georgia Review , Ascent , Shenandoah , The Greensboro Review , ZYZZYVA , Glimmer Train , Tin House , Half Mystic Journal ,

198-518: The Canadian magazine Brick , the Australian magazine HEAT , and Zoetrope: All-Story . Some short fiction writers, such as Steve Almond , Jacob M. Appel and Stephen Dixon have built national reputations in the United States primarily through publication in literary magazines. The Committee of Small Magazine Editors and Publishers (COSMEP) was founded by Richard Morris in 1968. It

220-711: The New Orleans–based De Bow's Review (1846–80). Several prominent literary magazines were published in Charleston, South Carolina , including The Southern Review (1828–32) and Russell's Magazine (1857–60). The most prominent Canadian literary magazine of the 19th century was the Montreal-based Literary Garland . The North American Review , founded in 1815, is the oldest American literary magazine. However, it had its publication suspended during World War II, and

242-588: The evolution of independent literary journals. There are thousands of other online literary publications and it is difficult to judge the quality and overall impact of this relatively new publishing medium. Little magazines, or "small magazines", are literary magazines that often publish experimental literature and the non-conformist writings of relatively unknown writers. Typically they had small readership, were financially uncertain or non-commercial, were irregularly published and showcased artistic innovation. Athenaeum (British magazine) The Athenæum

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264-805: The first-ever reference to the playing of a match of cricket in India . In 1921, with decreasing circulation, the Athenaeum was incorporated into its younger competitor: the Nation , becoming The Nation and Athenaeum . In 1931, this successor publication merged with the New Statesman , to form the New Statesman and Nation , eliminating the name Athenaeum after 97 years. Almost all volumes of The Athenaeum are available on-line. Hathi Trust The years 1828–1879 and certain years between 1880 and 1921 are freely available. For Copyright reasons

286-549: The magazine hosts the annual Oxford Poetry Prize. The 2022 Prize was judged by Emily Berry . First prize was won by Dominic Leonard , second prize by Linda Ravenswood , and third prize by Caleb Leow . The 2023 edition of the Prize was judged by Will Harris . First prize was won by Miruna Fulgeanu , second prize by Jo Davis , and third prize by Eric Yip . Before the inauguration of the Oxford Poetry Prize in 2022,

308-586: The magazine traditionally published the winners of Oxford's Newdigate Prize . Literary magazine Nouvelles de la république des lettres is regarded as the first literary magazine; it was established by Pierre Bayle in France in 1684. Literary magazines became common in the early part of the 19th century, mirroring an overall rise in the number of books, magazines, and scholarly journals being published at that time. In Great Britain , critics Francis Jeffrey , Henry Brougham and Sydney Smith founded

330-566: The most influential—though radically different—journals of the last half of the 20th century were The Kenyon Review ( KR ) and the Partisan Review . The Kenyon Review , edited by John Crowe Ransom , espoused the so-called New Criticism . Its platform was avowedly unpolitical. Although Ransom came from the South and published authors from that region, KR also published many New York–based and international authors. The Partisan Review

352-410: The period 1858 to 1868. George Henry Caunter was one of the principal early contributors, writing reviews of French-language books. His brother John Hobart Caunter also contributed reviews. H. F. Chorley covered musical topics from 1830 until 1868, starting well before the general emergence of regular journalistic music criticism in the mid 1840s. Theodore Watts-Dunton contributed regularly as

374-1020: The pieces in The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Essays annual volumes. SwiftCurrent , created in 1984, was the first online literary magazine. It functioned as more of a database of literary works than a literary publication. In 1995, the Mississippi Review was the first large literary magazine to launch a fully online issue. By 1998, Fence and Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern were published and quickly gained an audience. Around 1996, literary magazines began to appear more regularly online. At first, some writers and readers dismissed online literary magazines as not equal in quality or prestige to their print counterparts, while others said that these were not properly magazines and were instead ezines . Since then, though, many writers and readers have accepted online literary magazines as another step in

396-403: The principal critic of poetry from 1875 until 1898. Frederic George Stephens was art editor from 1860 until 1901, when he was replaced by Roger Fry because of his unfashionable disapproval of Impressionism ; Stephens continued to contribute book reviews and obituaries until 1904. Arthur Symons joined the staff in 1891. Editor from 1871 to 1900 was Norman MacColl . During the 19th century,

418-919: Was Al-Urwah al-Wuthqa . Among the literary magazines that began in the early part of the 20th century is Poetry magazine. Founded in 1912, it published T. S. Eliot 's first poem, " The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ". Another was The Bellman , which began publishing in 1906 and ended in 1919, was edited by William Crowell Edgar and was based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Other important early-20th century literary magazines include The Times Literary Supplement (1902), Southwest Review (1915), Virginia Quarterly Review (1925), World Literature Today (founded in 1927 as Books Abroad before assuming its present name in 1977), Southern Review (1935), and New Letters (1935). The Sewanee Review , although founded in 1892, achieved prominence largely thanks to Allen Tate , who became editor in 1944. Two of

440-470: Was a British literary magazine published in London , England, from 1828 to 1921. Initiated in 1828 by James Silk Buckingham , it was sold within a few weeks to Frederick Maurice and John Sterling , who failed to make it profitable. In 1829, Charles Wentworth Dilke became part proprietor and editor; he greatly extended the influence of the magazine. In 1846, he resigned the editorship and assumed that of

462-414: Was an attempt to organize the energy of the small presses. Len Fulton, editor and founder of Dustbook Publishing, assembled and published the first real list of these small magazines and their editors in the mid-1970s. This made it possible for poets to pick and choose the publications most amenable to their work and the vitality of these independent publishers was recognized by the larger community, including

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484-613: Was first associated with the American Communist Party and the John Reed Club ; however, it soon broke ranks with the party. Nevertheless, politics remained central to its character, while it also published significant literature and criticism. The middle-20th century saw a boom in the number of literary magazines, which corresponded with the rise of the small press . Among the important journals which began in this period were Nimbus: A Magazine of Literature,

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