WorkHenry Wadsworth Longfellow

Ballads and Other Poems

Ballads and Other Poems (1841), Inferred

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) · 1841

InferredHudspeth identified the book as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's *Ballads and Other Poems*, published in late December 1841 and containing poems such as "The Wreck of the Hesperus" and "The Village Blacksmith." Fuller's cool tone in suggesting someone else review it suggests she has read the poems but harbors reservations about their quality for Dial standards.

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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)

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Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Longfellow sent us his poems, and if you have toleration for them, it would be well to have a short notice written by some one (not me)”

Inferred Hudspeth identified the book as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Ballads and Other Poems, published in late December 1841 and containing poems such as "The Wreck of the Hesperus" and "The Village Blacksmith." Fuller's cool tone in suggesting someone else review it suggests she has read the poems but harbors reservations about their quality for Dial standards.

“S. Clarke to make up for you of Borrow, Longfellow, some more shreds of Dial, including the wearifu' Napoleon, and the Prayer Book”

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