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The poet Marianne Moore wrote letters every day, of which the longest were directed to her own family. Three letters to Moore's brother, John Warner Moore, are included. John was nicknamed Winks and Badger and Moore herself signs off as Rat, Weaz, and Winks. Moore's letters date from October to December 1915, including the third of four letters describing a trip.

A letter of Margaret Fuller's indicates that her criticism of Julia Ward Howe's early poetry led Fuller to respect Howe's talents and inspired Howe's adoption of Fuller as a model to emulate. The letter was probably from 1841-1842, and the addressee is unknown. Apparently, Howe gave some poetry to Fuller for criticism, and Fuller responds in the letter with an accurate analysis of the early style., As first editor of the Dial, Margaret Fuller developed the acumen which led to her being the first literary critic for the New York Tribune and one of the outstanding [...]

This article analyzes the correspondence between Emily Dickinson and Helen Hunt Jackson. The author focuses on the two poets' approaches to print publication, in which Dickinson sought limited circulation but aquired lasting fame, and Jackson emphasized the value of commerical publication, yet only aquired brief fame.

For reasons of economy, nineteenth-century editions of poetry sometimes divided pages into two columns of print. Although this enabled more writing to be fitted onto the page, it often meant […]

'Cornish Review' featured Cornish literature, however, none of the works reviewed were written in the Cornish language. Fourteen women poets, meanwhile, signed a letter to the 'Poetry Review,' claiming that the periodical discriminated against their gender. Tony Thorne's new book, 'Jolly, Wicked, Actually: The 100 Words That Make Us English,' is also discussed.