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‘ibThe Smart Set '/ib, the first major American literary journal

Abstract

On March 10, 1900 this ambitious cultural monthly (“the magazine of intelligence”) founded by William Alton Mann, a colonel tempted by becoming a publisher, was first launched. With an expected circulation of 100,000 copies it could afford comfortable emoluments for its contributors. In its early days, it mostly published well-known American authors of the good society, but it also developed an interest in Europe and even published French authors in French ! Gradually, poetry, essays and criticism took a larger place. Both editors and owners changed in rapid succession : John Adams Thayer, self-taught millionaire, Eugene Crowe and William Randolph Hearst, who totally distorted the editorial line of the magazine. Ezra Pound brought new Anglo-Saxons (DH Lawrence, Conrad, Yeats, Djuna Barnes …), later it published Dreiser, Huxley, Hammett, Sherwood Anderson, Hemingway and Fitzgerald … Despite success and gratefulness, the crisis of 1929 was to be fatal to the venture, but The Smart Set remains legendary by the number of authors it published for the first time.

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