WorkRalph Waldo Emerson

Poems

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Documented 1836–1849

Letters • Notebooks

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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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. Europe2records

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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1820

1832

1836

1844

1846

1850

1836—

Notebook: Bouquet, 1836–1837

p142

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“Let me go where'er I will / I hear a sky-born music still / It rounds from all things old / It sounds from all things young [...] But in the mud and scum of things / There's alway, alway something sings.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Notebook: Bouquet, 1836–1837." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (43); Box 6 (43).

Inferred Two poems follow the 'Each in All' poem in the notebook, labeled [not in SMF hand], without title or attribution. This untitled poem immediately follows Emerson's 'Each in All') and is also written not in SMF hand. The poem begins 'Let me go where'er I will / I hear a sky-born music still' and is consistent with Emerson's early poem 'Music' (later published in Poems, 1847, as 'Music').

Two poems follow the 'Each in All' poem in the notebook, labeled [not in SMF hand], without title or attribution. This untitled poem immediately follows Emerson's 'Each in All') and is also written not in SMF hand.

1847—

Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson

p259

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“I sent him your poems, and asked him to come and see me.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. IV. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.

1849—

Letter to Elizabeth De Windt Cranch

p204

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“Now you are going, I wish you would send me Emerson's poems, else, I may see them no more for a long time, unless you have made pencil marks, or for some other reason are anxious to keep that particular copy.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. V. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.