WorkRalph Waldo Emerson

“Thoughts on Art" / "Art”

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Documented 1840

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I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist1record

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson

p188

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“I wrote to you last night, and today the lines about your Essay seem so dull, so cold, and so impertinent withal that I have a mind to burn the paper”

Hudspeth identified this as a draft of either 'Thoughts on Art,' published in Dial 1 (January 1841): 367-78, or the essay 'Art,' the final essay in Emerson's Essays: First Series (1841).

“I shall depend on your Essay and hope to receive it certainly on Wednesday”

Hudspeth (fn. 1) identifies this as the same essay context as Letter 288: either 'Thoughts on Art,' Dial 1 (January 1841):367-78, or the essay 'Art' in Essays: First Series (1841).

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.