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He probably received encouragement to compete with the editor of the Analectic Magazine, Washington Irving, who wrote several biographies of American naval heroes and published engravings to accompany his articles.

A morose Irving entered the literary business, where his celebrity could not keep his Analectic Magazine from failing.

[at] Azhar with the analectic Shaykh al-Mahfuz al-Maghribi.

Reader response varies across the centuries, but we may glean a contemporary opinion from the anonymous reviewer of the Philadelphia periodical the Analectic Magazine, who usefully provides a comparison between our two poets:

Philadelphia's Analectic Magazine (1813-21) was chiefly notable for the brief editorship (1813-14) of Washington Irving.