WorkRalph Waldo Emerson

“Compensation”

"Compensation" (first published in Poems

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Documented 1837

Letters

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist1record

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Letter to Caroline Sturgis

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“I will bestow on you two verses written by a better person than myself— See if you think them pretty. The title is Compensation. Why should I keep holiday / When other men have none?”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.