The Dial was an American magazine published intermittently from 1840 to 1929. Counting Ralph Waldo Emerson among its founders, The Dial began as a transcendentalist magazine. Margaret Fuller was its first editor from 1840 to 1842; Emerson succeeded her. The magazine remained in publication until 1844. After a one-year revival in 1860, The Dial resumed publication in 1880 as a political magazine. Finally, in 1920, Scofield Thayer established The Dial as a literary magazine, the form for which it is was most successful and best known. In this incarnation, The Dial published a great deal of influential artwork, poetry and fiction, including William Butler Yeats' The Second Coming, the first U.S. publication of The Waste Land, and works by Hart Crane, E. E. Cummings, Joseph Conrad, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein and many others.