''The Hudson Review'' is a quarterly journal of literature and the arts.

History

It was founded in 1947 in New York, by

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, and

George Frederick Morgan George Frederick Morgan (April 25, 1922 – February 20, 2004) was a poet, the co-founder (1947) and long-time editor (1948–1998) of the literary quarterly ''The Hudson Review'' and an heir to a fortune built on soap. Morgan attended Princeton ...

. The first issue was introduced in the spring of 1948. Morgan edited the magazine from its founding until 1998, when Paula Deitz succeeded him. According to the ''Reviews website: "the magazine has dealt with the area where literature bears on the intellectual life of the time and on diverse aspects of American culture. It has no university affiliation and is not committed to any narrow academic aim or to any particular political perspective." In 2006,

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libraries announced that they had acquired the archives of the journal, which included important works including an

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manuscript.

References

External links

Official site''The Hudson Review'' Archives, 1863-2009
at the

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