The Quarterly Review of Literature (QRL) was an American literary magazine founded in 1943 by the poet Theodore (Ted) Weiss (1916–2003) and then Spanish teacher Warren Pendleton Carrier (1918–2009).
The Review showcased emerging and major writers including William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Thomas Merton, Mark Van Doren, Ezra Pound, Henry Miller, and Jean-Paul Sartre, the quarterly is credited with reviving interest in poets who were out of literary fashion, and introducing some that were not widely known to Americans, including Franz Kafka and Eugenio Montale.
[1][2] Poets Theodore Weiss and Warren Carrier published the first issue of the Review, Volume 1, Issue 1, while teaching at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Fall 1943 (December 17, 1943).
The Review followed Theodore Weiss throughout his teaching career, moving to Yale in 1966, Bard College in 1948, and Princeton in 1966.
The publication archives, including manuscripts and correspondence, are held at the Princeton University Library.