The Yale Review is the self-proclaimed oldest literary quarterly in the United States. It is published by Yale University. A literary magazine is a periodical devoted to literature in a broad sense. ... For other uses, see Yale (disambiguation). ...

It was founded orginally in 1819 as The Christian Spectator, and renamed the Yale Review in 1911 by its new editor, Wilbur Cross. Cross remained the editor for thirty years, throughout the magazine's heyday. Contributors during this period, according to the Review's website, included Thomas Mann, Henry Adams, Virginia Woolf, George Santayana, Robert Frost, José Ortega y Gasset, Eugene O'Neill, Leon Trotsky, H.G. Wells, Thomas Wolfe, John Maynard Keynes, H.L. Mencken, A.E. Housman, Ford Madox Ford, and Wallace Stevens. 1819 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1911 was a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ... Wilbur Lucius Cross (1862 - 1948) was a U.S. educator and political figure. ... Thomas Mann Paul Thomas Mann (June 6, 1875 – August 12, 1955) was a German novelist, social critic, philanthropist and essayist, lauded principally for a series of highly symbolic and often ironic epic novels and mid-length stories, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and intellectual and... Henry Brooks Adams (February 16, 1838 - March 27, 1918) was a U.S. historian, journalist and novelist. ... Virginia Woolf (January 25, 1882 – March 28, 1941) was a British author and feminist, who is considered to be one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. ... George Santayana George Santayana (16 December 1863–26 September 1952), was a Spanish philosopher, essayist, poet and novelist, best known for the oft-quoted statement, Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it, from Reason in Common Sense, the first volume of The Life of Reason. ... Robert Frost Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) is, in the estimation of many, the greatest American poet of the 20th century and one of the greatest poets writing in English in the 20th century. ... José Ortega y Gasset José Ortega y Gasset (May 9, 1883 - October 18, 1955) was a Spanish philosopher. ... Eugene ONeill Eugene Gladstone ONeill (New York City, October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953 in Boston) was an American playwright. ... Leon Trotsky, 1940 Leon Davidovich Trotsky ( ♫) (Russian: Лев Давидович Троцкий; also transliterated Leo, Lev, Trotskii, Trotski, Trotskij and Trotzky ) (October 26 (O.S.) = November 7 (N.S.), 1879 – August 21, 1940), born Lev Davidovich Bronstein (Лев Давидович Бронштейн), was a Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist theorist. ... H. G. Wells at the door of his house at Sandgate Herbert George Wells (September 21, 1866 - August 13, 1946) was an English writer best known for his science fiction novels such as The War of the Worlds and The Time Machine. ... Photo by Carl Van Vechten For the modern, currently living author and journalist, see Tom Wolfe Thomas Clayton Wolfe (October 3, 1900–September 15, 1938) was a famous American novelist. ... John Maynard Keynes John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes of Tilton (pronounced kānz / kAnze), ) (June 5, 1883 – April 21, 1946) was an English economist, whose ideas had a major impact on modern economic and political theory as well as on Franklin D. Roosevelts New Deal. ... H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (September 12, 1880 - January 29, 1956) was a twentieth century journalist and social critic, a cynic and a freethinker, known as the Sage of Baltimore and the American Nietzsche. He is often regarded as one of the most influential American writers of the early 20th... Alfred Edward Housman (March 26, 1859 _ April 30, 1936) was an English poet and classical scholar, now best known for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad. ... Ford Madox Ford (December 17, 1873 - June 26, 1939) was an English novelist and publisher. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...

The current editor is J.D. McClatchy, a poet and literary critic. Poets are authors of poems, or of other forms of poetry such as dramatic verse. ... Literary criticism is the study, discussion, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. ...

External links

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