Columbian Magazine, The

The Oxford Companion to American Literature | 1995 | 619 words | Copyright

Columbian Magazine, The (1786–92), monthly periodical published at Philadelphia by a literary group that included Mathew Carey and Francis Hopkinson. Its format was the most attractive of all American magazines of its time, and it featured agricultural and mechanical subjects, with an unusual amount of fiction. In its pages were first printed Belknap's The Foresters, William Byrd's description of the Dismal Swamp, and C.B. Brown's The Rhapsodist. In 1790 the magazine was altered, afterward appearing as The Universal Asylum and Columbian Magazine, with Benjamin Rush as the leading contributor.

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