Boston: E.P. Peabody, 109 Washington Street, 1842.
Price: $1,700.00
Softcover. A scarce untrimmed single issue in the original printed wrappers. Octavo. pp. [273] 274-408. Scattered foxing at the front, about 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 writers and social reformers connected with the Transcendentalist group and Brook Farm utopian community.
This issue includes two poems and two essays by Emerson: "The Park" and "Forbearance," "The Senses and the Soul" and "Editor’s Table. Transcendentalism"; three substantial contributions by Margaret Fuller: "Yuca Filamentosa," "Bettine Brentano and Her Friend Günderode," and "Epilogue to the Tragedy of Essex"; and three sonnets by James Russell Lowell. A complete is available.
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