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). In 1944, Weiss's wife — Renée Karol Weiss (born 1923), a violinist and, later, an author of children's books — replaced Carrier when he entered the military. 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.