WorkHenry David Thoreau

“Rumors from an Aeolian Harp" in The Dial, vol. 3, no. 2”

"Rumors from an Aeolian Harp" in The Dial, vol. 3, no. 2 (October 1842)

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) · October 1842

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Letters

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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 Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“meseems he has spoiled his 'Rumors' &c by substituting / And simple truth on every tongue / for / All the poems are unsung, / or some such line which was the one that gave most character to the original and yet I admire the / tread of high souled men.”

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