WorkJohn Sterling

“The Sexton's Daughter, Aphrodite, Alfred the Harper Daedalus,The,Mountains, The Rose and the Gauntlet, Lady Jane Grey, and 'Shakspeare' in Poems”

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Documented 1846

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“Daedalus we must quote. Wail for Daedalus all that is fairest.”
Papers on Literature and Art
127-line excerpt range shows a sustained quotation of Sterling's Daedalus.

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I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

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Papers on Literature and Art

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“Some of these have been collected into a small volume, which has been republished in this country.”

Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.

She names The Sexton's Daughter, Aphrodite, Alfred the Harper ('Still lives the song though Regnar dies'), Daedalus (quoted in full, 13 stanzas), The Wooded Mountains (whose measure she says 'seems borrowed from Goethe'), The Rose and the Gauntlet, Lady Jane Grey, and 'his poem on Shakspeare' — all from Sterling's 1839 Poems, originally contributed to Blackwood's.