WorkRalph Waldo Emerson

“Threnody”

Threnody (composed 1842–44; published in Poems

AnalyzedMentioned

Documented 1844

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. Transcendentalist

V. New York1record

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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1820

1832

1836

1844

1846

1850

1844—

Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson

p176

analyzed

“I wish, if you are willing, I may have a copy of your poem about him, even if it is not finished. I will confine it as strictly to myself, as you may desire.”

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

Hudspeth identified the identification; Emerson replied that he would "try, since you ask it, to copy my rude dirges to my Darling & send them to you," indicating Fuller was seeking access to an unfinished work still in manuscript form.