The Letters of Margaret Fuller: 1839-41Cornell University Press, 1983 - 278 pages This second volume publishes all of Margaret Fuller's letters written from 1839 to 1841--the years in which she first began to achieve fame as a writer and an editor. Addressed to such eminent figures as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, William H. Channing, Elizabeth Peabody, and Frederic H. hedge as well as to Fuller's family and intimate friends, these letters record the years of her involvement in the Transcendentalist Club--a group of liberal clergymen and writers who gathered to discuss theology, literature, and philosophy. In 1839 the Club decided to found a magazine, The Dial; Fuller became the editor, and at last she had a forum for her innovative views of literature and of literary criticism. These are also the years of her famous "conversations" for women--weekly discussions of mythology which were attended by twenty-five of the most prominent women in the area. The letters chronicle the most emotionally turbulent period in her life. In the course of little more than a year she was rejected by the man she loved, Samuel G. Ward, who then married her close friend Anna Barker; she was rebuffed by Emerson as well; and she underwent a profound religious experience that she felt changed her life. |
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... true to yourself be otherwise than true to me . For these nearest " coming days - I cannot of course dictate to your spirit , yet as far as I can see I would say think of me no more at present . Give yourself up to the holy hour and ...
... true one . They acknowledge in the nature of man an arbiter for his deeds , -a standard transcending sense and time , —and are , in my view , the true utilitarians . They are but at the beginning of their course , and will , I hope ...
... true representative of idealism in its excess . Yet if , in his short life , man be liable to some excess , should we not rather prefer to have the will palsied like Hamlet , by a deep - searching tendency and desire for poetic ...