WorkRalph Waldo Emerson

“Ode to Beauty”

"Ode to Beauty" (1843) Inferred

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) · 1843

InferredFuller writes only "a fine poem" without naming the work, directing Thoreau to read it in the upcoming Dial issue; Hudspeth identified this as Emerson's "Ode to Beauty," published in Dial 4 (1843):257-59.

AnalyzedMentioned

Documented 1843

Letters

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

Totals count documented engagements, once at the earliest witness. How we count →

Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this work is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist1record
V. New York
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850
1843—

Letter to Henry D. Thoreau

p98
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“Mr Emerson has written a fine poem, you will see it in the Dial.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.

Inferred Fuller writes only "a fine poem" without naming the work, directing Thoreau to read it in the upcoming Dial issue; Hudspeth identified this as Emerson's "Ode to Beauty," published in Dial 4 (1843):257-59.