Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922
Transcriber's Note
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SEPTEMBER 1915
HOWARD P. LOVECRAFT First Vice-President U. A. P. A.
The desire to write for publication is one which inheres strongly in every human breast. From the proficient college graduate, storming the gates of the high-grade literary magazines, to the raw schoolboy, vainly endeavoring to place his first crude compositions in the local newspapers, the whole intelligent public are today seeking expression through the printed page, and yearning to behold their thoughts and ideals permanently crystallized in the magic medium of type. But while a few persons of exceptional talent manage eventually to gain a foothold in the professional world of letters rising to celebrity through the wide diffusion of their art, ideals, or opinions; the vast majority, unless aided in their education by certain especial advantages, are doomed to confine their expression to the necessarily restricted sphere of ordinary conversation. To supply these especial educational advantages which may enable the general public to achieve the distinction of print, and which may prevent the talented but unknown author from remaining forever in obscurity, has arisen that largest and foremost of societies for literary education The United Amateur Press Association .
Amateur journalism, or the composition and circulation of small, privately printed magazines, is an instructive diversion which has existed in the United States for over half a century. In the decade of 1866-1876 this practice first became an organized institution; a short-lived society of amateur journalists, including the now famous publisher, Charles Scribner, having existed from 1869 to 1874. In 1876 a more lasting society was formed, which exists to this day as an exponent of light dilettantism. Not until 1895, however, was amateur journalism established as a serious branch of educational endeavour. On September 2nd of that year, Mr. William H. Greenfield, a gifted professional author, of Philadelphia, founded The United Amateur Press Association , which has grown to be the leader of its kind, and the representative of amateur journalism in its best phases throughout the English-speaking world.
H. P. Lovecraft
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ITS OBJECT
ITS ORIGIN
ITS NATURE
ITS PUBLISHING ACTIVITIES
ITS CONTRIBUTED LITERATURE
ITS CRITICAL DEPARTMENTS
ITS LITERARY AWARDS
ITS OFFICIAL ORGAN
ITS GOVERNMENT
ITS LOCAL CLUBS
ITS PLACE IN EDUCATION
ITS ENTRANCE CONDITIONS
ITS REPRESENTATIVES
ITS PROVINCE SUMMARIZED
THE UNITED AMATEUR
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC CRITICISM
THE UNITED AMATEUR MARCH 1915
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC CRITICISM
MARCH
THE UNITED AMATEUR
Department Of Public Criticism
THE UNITED AMATEUR
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC CRITICISM
Little Journeys to the Homes of Prominent Amateurs
THE UNITED AMATEUR FEBRUARY 1916
The Teuton's Battle-Song
THE UNITED AMATEUR
Department Of Public Criticism
THE UNITED AMATEUR
Department Of Public Criticism
The Poetry Of The Month
THE UNITED AMATEUR AUGUST 1916
Department Of Public Criticism
THE UNITED AMATEUR SEPTEMBER 1916
Department Of Public Criticism
THE UNITED AMATEUR
The Alchemist
THE UNITED AMATEUR MARCH 1917
Department Of Public Criticism
THE UNITED AMATEUR MAY 1917
Department of Public Criticism
THE UNITED AMATEUR
Ode For July Fourth, 1917
Department of Public Criticism
NEWS NOTES
THE UNITED AMATEUR
A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson
REPORTS OF OFFICERS
THE UNITED AMATEUR JANUARY 1918
REPORTS OF OFFICERS
THE UNITED AMATEUR MARCH 1918
REPORTS OF OFFICERS
THE UNITED AMATEUR MAY 1918
Sunset
REPORTS OF OFFICERS
THE UNITED AMATEUR JUNE 1918
Astrophobos
THE UNITED AMATEUR JULY 1918
At the Root
REPORTS OF OFFICERS
THE UNITED AMATEUR
To Alan Seeger:
THE UNITED AMATEUR JANUARY 1919
THE UNITED AMATEUR MARCH 1919
A Note on Howard P. Lovecraft's Verse
OFFICIAL REPORTS
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC CRITICISM
THE UNITED AMATEUR MAY 1919
Helene Hoffman Cole—Litterateur
THE UNITED AMATEUR JULY 1919
Americanism
THE UNITED AMATEUR NOVEMBER 1919
The White Ship
TO MISTRESS SOPHIA SIMPLE, QUEEN OF THE CINEMA
THE UNITED AMATEUR JANUARY 1920
Literary Composition
THE UNITED AMATEUR MAY 1920
For What Does the United Stand?
THE UNITED AMATEUR
Poetry and the Gods
THE UNITED AMATEUR NOVEMBER 1920
Nyarlathotep
Editorial
Official Organ Fund
THE UNITED AMATEUR JANUARY 1921
OFFICIAL ORGAN FUND
THE UNITED AMATEUR MARCH 1921
Winifred Virginia Jackson: A "Different" Poetess
Ex Oblivione
OFFICIAL ORGAN FUND
THE UNITED AMATEUR SEPTEMBER 1921
THE UNITED AMATEUR
Editorial
THE UNITED AMATEUR NOVEMBER 1921
THE UNITED AMATEUR
OFFICIAL ORGAN FUND
THE UNITED AMATEUR JANUARY 1922
THE UNITED AMATEUR
Editorial
THE UNITED AMATEUR MARCH 1922
OFFICIAL ORGAN FUND
THE UNITED AMATEUR MAY 1922
OFFICIAL ORGAN FUND
At the Home of Poe