The Polyanthos was a monthly literary magazine published in Boston, Massachusetts, by Joseph Tinker Buckingham from December 1805 – September 1814.
[1] The magazine was founded in 1805 by Joseph Tinker Buckingham and featured a large number of contributors of essays, biographical articles and other literature, such as Wilkes Allen, Rev.
[4] The first issue of The Polyanthos featured a biography of Samuel Harris, a review of the poem "Monody on the Victims and Sufferers by the Late Conflagration in Richmond, Virginia," a long essay on the alphabet, and "eleven paragraph-length bits which Buckingham apparently wished known as essays.
[11] The magazine ceased in 1814 "for the ungrateful or undiscerning public, — notwithstanding the expressed flattery of their taste and confidence in their liberality, — suffered it to wither and die.
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