Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

WorkHenry David Thoreau

“The Fisher's Son”

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

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Documented 1841

Letters

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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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)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850
1841—

Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Henry T's verses.- I have kept "The fisher boy"; that copy was for myself; was it not?”

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

Fuller calls it 'The fisher boy'; Hudspeth identified it as 'The Fisher's Son,' a poem Thoreau wrote c. late 1839 or early 1840; not published in the Dial] | Fuller explicitly names 'The fisher boy' as a poem by 'Henry T.' (Henry Thoreau) and says she kept a copy 'for myself'