''The Southern Review'' is a quarterly

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that was established by Robert Penn Warren in 1935 at the behest of Charles W. Pipkin and funded by Huey Long as a part of his investment in Louisiana State University. It publishes

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, poetry, critical essays, and excerpts from

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s in progress by established and emerging writers and includes reproductions of visual art. ''The Southern Review'' continues to follow Warren's articulation of the mission when he said that it gives "writers decent company between the covers, and oncentrateseditorial authority sufficiently for the journal to have its own distinctive character and quality".

History

An earlier ''Southern Review'' was published in

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from 1828 to 1832, and another in

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from 1867 to 1879. The initial staff consisted of editor-in-chief Charles W. Pipkin, Robert Penn Warren and Cleanth Brooks as managing editors, and Albert Erskine as business manager. In 1942, after 28 issues, publishing was interrupted and restarted again in 1965. Past editors-in-chief and co-editors have been Albert R. Erskine Jr., Lewis P. Simpson, Donald E. Stanford,

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, Fred Hobson, Dave Smith, Bret Lott, Jeanne M. Leiby, Cara Blue Adams, and

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. The co-editors as of August 2018 are Sacha Idell and Jessica Faust.

Reception

In 1936, shortly after the journal's founding, poetry editor

Morton D. Zabel Morton Dauwen Zabel (1901 – April 29, 1964) was an American academic and literary critic. He was the editor-in-chief of ''Poetry: A Magazine of Verse'' from 1936 to 1937, the first professor of North American Literature at the Federal University ...

credited ''The Southern Review'' with "a competence almost unrivaled at the moment in American letters." In 1941, on the occasion of the journal's 5th anniversary,

John Crowe Ransom John Crowe Ransom (April 30, 1888 – July 3, 1974) was an American educator, scholar, literary critic, poet, essayist and editor. He is considered to be a founder of the New Criticism school of literary criticism. As a faculty member at Kenyon ...

stated "''The Southern Review''s five year achievement is close to the best thing in the history of American letters."

Timeline

* 1935: ''The Southern Review'' is established. The first issue includes work by Wallace Stevens, Randall Jarrell, Ford Madox Ford, Katherine Anne Porter, and Aldous Huxley. * 1942: Publication suspended due to World War II. * 1965: Lewis P. Simpson and Donald E. Stanford relaunch the magazine. * 1983: James Olney joins Lewis P. Simpson as co-editor. * 1987: Fred Hobson joins James Olney as co-editor. * 1990: Dave Smith joins James Olney as co-editor. * 2004: Bret Lott assumes editorship. * 2006: The magazine wins first place for Best Journal Design in the CELJ International Awards Competition. * 2008: Jeanne M. Leiby becomes editor * 2011: Jessica Faust and Cara Blue Adams become co-editors. * 2013: Emily Nemens joins Jessica Faust as co-editor. * 2018: Sacha Idell joins Jessica Faust as co-editor.

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* * The Southern Review Records. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. {{DEFAULTSORT:Southern Review, The Magazines established in 1935 American Southern literary magazines Quarterly magazines published in the United States English-language magazines Louisiana State University Magazines published in Louisiana Mass media in Baton Rouge, Louisiana Louisiana State University Press books

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