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1840The Dial. A quarterly journal devoted to literature and religion founded by Theodore Parker, Bronson Alcott, Orestes Brownson, Margaret Fuller, James Freeman Clarke, and Ralph Waldo Emerson as the mouthpiece of New England Transcendentalism. Edited the first two years by Fuller, it included writings by Thoreau, Emerson, Parker, Christopher Pearse Cranch, and others. In 1842, Emerson assumed the editorship and was responsible for printing excerpts from Eastern religious writings, poetry by W. H. Channing, and "Lectures on the Times" by Emerson himself. The Dial's subscriber list never grew above three hundred, and it received harsh criticism from other periodicals but became one of the most significant periodicals for American literary historians.
1880The Dial. Founded in Chicago as a conservative review, the journal would by 1918 feature advanced ideas by writers such as John Dewey, Thorstein Veblen, and Charles Austin Beard. During the 1920s, it became the leading champion for international modernism, publishing writings by William Butler Yeats, Thomas Mann, and virtually every significant American writer during the period. Marianne Moore served as its editor from 1926 to its demise in 1929.

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Not to be confused with a diol, a chemical containing two hydroxyl groups.

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Etymology

Its original meaning was sundial and/or clock dial, from Latin diālis meaning daily, or concerning the day, because of its use in telling the time of day.

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