WorkElizabeth Palmer Peabody

“Nature — A Prose Poem" [review of Emerson's Nature], United States Magazine and Democratic Review, vol. 1: 319–29”

Elizabeth Palmer Peabody · February 1838

InferredHudspeth identified the specific review as "Nature—A Prose Poem" (*United States Magazine and Democratic Review* 1, February 1838), conclusively attributed by Margaret Neussendorfer to Elizabeth Peabody.

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1838"Nature—A Prose Poem" (United States Magazine and Democratic Review)Attested
“Lately I have been amusing myself with looking at you through two pair of spectacles of very dissimilar construction in Brownson's review and the Democratic.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Providence 1st March 1838
Continuation of the same sentence documenting her reading of the Democratic Review piece. Identification note (Oct 12, 2026): the excerpt establishes that Fuller read two periodical presentations of Peabody — 'two pair of spectacles… in Brownson's review and the Democratic.' The identification of the Democratic Review item as Peabody's 'Nature—A Prose Poem,' and its attribution to Peabody, are provisional and not argued from the excerpt.

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Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“I have been amusing myself with looking at you through two pair of spectacles of very dissimilar construction in Brownson's review and the Democratic.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

Inferred Hudspeth identified the specific review as "Nature—A Prose Poem" (United States Magazine and Democratic Review 1, February 1838), conclusively attributed by Margaret Neussendorfer to Elizabeth Peabody.