WorkDavid Hatch Barlow

“Lines to the Memory of Edward Bliss Emerson”

"Lines to the Memory of Edward Bliss Emerson" [poem in Christian Register, 8 November 1834] Inferred

InferredHudspeth identified the poem as "Lines to the Memory of Edward Bliss Emerson" published in the Christian Register in November 1834, with a second poem on the same subject appearing in December.

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1834Lines to the Memory of Edward Bliss EmersonAttested
“I meant to have mentioned, in speaking of Mr Barlow, his lines on the death of Edward Emerson... they drew many tears from my eyes”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton gth Novr 1834
Explicit personal reaction 'they drew many tears from my eyes' to specific named lines by Barlow.

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

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III. Self-Directed1record

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe

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Letter to Frederic H. Hedge

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“I meant to have mentioned, in speaking of Mr Barlow, his lines on the death of Edward Emerson.”

Fuller, Margaret. "To Frederic H. Hedge, 9 November 1834." In The Letters of Margaret Fuller, Vol. I: 1817–1838, edited by Robert N. Hudspeth, 211–212. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

Inferred Hudspeth identified the poem as “Lines to the Memory of Edward Bliss Emerson” published in the Christian Register in November 1834, with a second poem on the same subject appearing in December.