WorkJohn Sterling

“Thoughts and Images' and/or 'Land and Sea”

InferredFuller praises Sterling's verse contributions to Blackwood's under the pen name Archaeus, likely referring to "Thoughts and Images" (August 1838) and/or "Land and Sea" (September 1838). She groups these poems with Sterling's other works as evidence that human intellect remains devoted to meditation and genius rather than mere accomplishment.

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Documented 1839

Letters

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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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 Sarah Helen Whitman

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“This author, Sterling, who wrote also the Crystals from a Cavern and the fine poetical pieces signed Archaeus is a great encouragement to me.”

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

Inferred Fuller praises Sterling's verse contributions to Blackwood's under the pen name Archaeus, likely referring to "Thoughts and Images" (August 1838) and/or "Land and Sea" (September 1838). She groups these poems with Sterling's other works as evidence that human intellect remains devoted to meditation and genius rather than mere accomplishment.