The Stylus, originally intended to be named The Penn, was a would-be periodical owned and edited by Edgar Allan Poe. It had been a long dream of Poe to establish an American journal with very high standards in order to elevate the literature of the time. Despite attempts at signing up –subscribers and finding financial backers and contributors, the journal never came to be.
Though Poe thought of creating the journal as early as 1834, he first ann...
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The Stylus, originally intended to be named The Penn, was a would-be periodical owned and edited by Edgar Allan Poe. It had been a long dream of Poe to establish an American journal with very high standards in order to elevate the literature of the time. Despite attempts at signing up –subscribers and finding financial backers and contributors, the journal never came to be.
Though Poe thought of creating the journal as early as 1834, he first announced his prospectus in June 1840 immediately after leaving Burton's Gentleman's Magazine. Originally, Poe intended to call the journal The Penn, as it would have been based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In the June 6, 1840, issue of Philadelphia's Saturday Evening Post, Poe purchased advertising space for his prospectus: "PROSPECTUS OF THE PENN MAGAZINE, a Monthly Literary Journal, to be Edited and Published in the city of Philadelphia, by Edgar A. Poe." Many were looking forward to the magazine, including Connecticut-born journalist Jesse...
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