Although in his own time Joseph Dennie was known as "the American Addison" for his periodical essays, his most influential literary role was as the editor of the Port Folio and several other early Ame...
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Joseph Dennie was one of the first Americans to be considered a professional writer. Although his principal fame rests on his essays and literary criticism, he also earned journalistic renown as the e...
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Joseph Dennie--editor, literary critic, and essayist--was a pioneer litterateur in America in the Federalist period. As a professional man of letters, he was preceded only by Charles Brockden Brown. H...
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Joseph Dennie, an ardent Anglophile who detested democracy, was a leading literary figure during the latter half of the eighteenth century, which has been described as the "Dark Ages of American Journ...
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Joseph Dennie