The Portico

For other uses, see Portico (disambiguation).

The Portico: A Repository of Science & Literature (1816–1818) was a short-lived Baltimore literary journal founded and edited by Stephen Simpson and Tobias Watkins. The monthly journal was formed to publish the members of a small Baltimore literary society, called the Delphian Club. The Portico's contributors include John Pierpont, a poet, and John Neal, a poet, novelist, and journalist who went on to write for English periodicals such as Blackwood's Magazine and to serve as editor of several American papers.

The Portico

Title page of volume 1 (Jan-June 1816)
Co-editor	Stephen Simpson
Co-editor	Tobias Watkins
Editor of last issue	John Neal
Categories	Science, literature
Frequency	Monthly, quarterly
Founder	Stephen Simpson and Tobias Watkins
Founded	1816
First issue	January 1816 (January 1816)
Final issue Number	April–June 1818 (1818) Vol 6 No 1
Company	Neale Wills & Cole
Country	United States
Based in	Baltimore
Language	English

The Portico regularly offered reviews of contemporary British and American works, humorous and serious essays on wide-ranging subjects, and original poetry and fiction. The journal's promotion of American literature through generous reviews of contemporary American works and authors made it one of the most important contributors to early American literary nationalism.

References

• Fishwick, Marshall W. (1951). "The Portico and Literary Nationalism after the War of 1812". William and Mary Quarterly. 8 (2). Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture: 238–245. doi:10.2307/1916907. JSTOR 1916907.
• Frank Luther Mott (1930). A History of American Magazines, 1741-1850. New York: D. Appleton. p. 1.