The Dial

Overview

The Dial was an American magazine published intermittently from 1840 to 1929. In its first form, it served as the chief publication of the Trancendentalists and then in the 1880s it was revived as a political magazine. The magazine is best known for its success from 1920 to 1929 as an influential outlet for Modernist Literature.

Under Watson's and Thayer's sway The Dial was reestablished as a literary magazine. The Dial published remarkably influential artwork, poetry and fiction, including William Butler Yeats' "The Second Coming" and the first United States publication of T. S. Eliot's  The Waste Land.  The magazine featured the works of many known writers such as  E. E. Cummings, Charles Demuth, Ezra Pound and Bertrand Russell.

The Dial published art as well as the written word, featureing artists such as Vincent van Gogh, Renoir, and Georgia O'Keeffe.  The magazine also reported on the cultural life and happenings of major European capitals with correspondents, T. S. Eliot from London, John Eglinton from Dublin, Ezra Pound from Paris, Thomas Mann from Germany, and Hugo con Hofmannsthal from Vienna.