Boston: Weeks, Jordan, and Company, 121 Washington Street, 1841.
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Softcover. A scarce untrimmed single issue in the original printed wrappers. Octavo. pp. [273] 274-408. Professionally repaired at the crown, near fine. *The Dial* was one of the most important American literary magazines of the 19th Century, and also one of the scarcest, with a subscription list that “did not at any time reach three hundred names.”
Edited by Margaret Fuller (1840-42) and Ralph Waldo Emerson (1842-44), it published many of their best-known literary works and critical writings, including reviews and translations. It also introduced the writings of Henry David Thoreau and other leading authors and social reformers connected with the Transcendentalist group and Brook Farm utopian community.
This issue includes three poems and an essay by Emerson: *The Snow Storm*, *Suum Cuique*, *The Sphinx*, and *Thoughts on Art*; three essays by Margaret Fuller: *Meta*, *The Magnolia of Lake Pontchartrain*, and *Menzel’s View of Goethe*; a poem by Thoreau: *Stanzas* (“Nature doth have her dawn each day …”); and Sophia Ripley's essay: *Woman*.
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