The Dial

A Magazine for Literature, Philosophy, and Religion

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

No. I (Volume I, number 1): July 1840

• The Editors to the Reader ~ R.W. Emerson

• A Short Essay on Critics ~ Margaret Fuller

• To the Aurora Borealis ~ C.P. Cranch

• Notes from the Journal of a Scholar ~  C.C. Emerson

• The Religion of Beauty ~ J.S. Dwight

• [Sweet is the pleasure] ~  J.S. Dwight

• Brownson's Writings  ~ George Ripley

• The Last Farewell ~ E.B. Emerson

• Ernest the Seeker. Chapter I. ~ W.H. Channing

• The Divine Presence in Nature and in the Soul ~Theodore Parker

• Sympathy ~ H.D. Thoreau

• Lines ~ Ellen Tucker Emerson

• A Record of the Impressions produced by the Exhibition of Allston's Pictures in the Summer of 1839 ~ Margaret Fuller

• To W. Allston on seeing his "Bride" ~ S.G. Ward

• To Allston's Picture, "The Bride" ~ Margaret Fuller

• Song ~ S.G. Ward

• To ****  [To Eva] ~ R.W. Emerson

• Orphic Sayings ~ A. Bronson Alcott

• Stanzas [Gnosis] ~  C.P. Cranch

• Channing's Translation of Jouffroy ~ W.D. Wilson

• Aulus Persius Flaccus  ~ H.D. Thoreau

• The Shield  ~  S.G. Ward

• The Problem ~ R.W. Emerson

• Come Morir? ~  S.G. Ward

• [I slept and dreamed that life was Beauty] ~  Ellen Hooper

• The Concerts of the Past Winter ~ J.S. Dwight

• A Dialogue ~ Margaret Fuller

• Richter ~ Margaret Fuller

• Some murmur at the "want of system" in Richter's writings ~ Margaret Fuller

• The Morning Breeze ~ Margaret Fuller

• Dante ~ Sarah Clarke

• A Sketch [I.]  ~ Margaret Fuller

• A Sketch [II.] ~ Margaret Fuller

• [Did you never admire anything?] ~ Margaret Fuller

No. II (Volume I, number 2): October 1840

• Thoughts on Modern Literature ~ R.W. Emerson

• Silence [Eros] ~ R.W. Emerson

• First Crossing the Alleghanies ~ J.F. Clarke

• A Sign from the West ~ C.P. Cranch

• Angelica Sleeps.—Berni [Translated]  ~ Margaret Fuller (?)

• Nature and Art, or the Three Landscapes. Gaspar Poussin. Domenichino. Allston's Italian landscape ~ J.F. Clarke

• The Art of Life the Scholar's Calling ~ F.H. Hedge

• Letter to a Theological Student ~ George Ripley

• "The Poor Rich Man" ~ Ellen Hooper

• [Why askest thou?] ~ W.E. Channing

• Musings of a Recluse ~ C.P. Cranch

• The Wood-Fire ~ Ellen Hooper

• The Day Breaks ~ Caroline Tappan

• The Poet ~ Ellen Hooper

• Life ~ Caroline Tappan

• Evening ~ Caroline Tappan

• A Lesson for the Day ~ Theodore Parker

• Wayfarers ~ Ellen Hooper

• From Goethe ~ Caroline Tappan

• Pæan ~ Caroline Tappan

• Lyric ~ Caroline Tappan

• Truth Against the World ~ Theodore Parker

• Waves ~ Caroline Tappan

• [On the surface by the waves] ~ Caroline Tappan

• New Poetry [Poems by W.E. Channing] ~ R.W. Emerson

• Art and Artist ~ Caroline Tappan

• Ernest the Seeker. Chapter II ~ W.H. Channing

• Woodnotes ~ R.W. Emerson

• Life and Death ~ Caroline Tappan

• Record of the Months

• The Works of William E. Channing, D.D. ~ George Ripley

• Two Sermons by G.F. Simmons ~ George Ripley

• A Letter to those who think ~ George Ripley

• Professor Walker's Vindication of Philosophy ~ George Ripley

• The Athenæum Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture ~ Margaret Fuller

• The Dream ~ Caroline Tappan

• Dana's "Two Years before the Mast"~ R.W. Emerson

• Fourier's "Social Destiny of Man"~ R.W. Emerson

• Rankes' "History of the Popes" ~ Theodore Parker

• Harwood's "Materialism in Religion"~ George Ripley

• Cousin's "Œuvres complètes de Platon"~ George Ripley

No. III (Volume I, number 3): January 1841

• Man in the Ages ~ Thomas T. Stone

• Afternoon ~ Caroline Tappan

• Questionings ~ F.H. Hedge

• Endymion ~ C.P. Cranch

• Hymn and Prayer ~ J.F. Clarke

• Meta ~ Margaret Fuller

• The True in Dreams ~ C.P. Cranch

• The Magnolia of Lake Pontchartrain ~ Margaret Fuller

• Love and Insight ~ Caroline Tappan

• Sunset ~ Caroline Tappan

• Give us an Interpreter ~ Caroline Tappan

• [Birds shooting swiftly through air and light] ~ Caroline Tappan

• Ideals of Every-Day Life. Number I ~ J.S. Dwight

• To Nydia ~ J.F. Clarke

• The Violet ~ Ellen Tucker Emerson

• Stanzas ~ H.D. Thoreau

• German Literature ~ Theodore Parker

• The Snow-Storm ~ R.W. Emerson

• Menzel's View of Goethe ~ Margaret Fuller

• Suum Cuique ~ R.W. Emerson

• The Sphinx ~ R.W. Emerson

• Orphic Sayings ~ A. Bronson Alcott

• Woman ~ Sophia Ripley

• Sonnet. To a Voice heard in Mount Auburn, July, 1839 ~ J.R. Lowell

• Thoughts on Art ~ R.W. Emerson

• Glimmerings ~ C.P. Cranch

• Correspondences ~ C.P. Cranch

• Color and Light ~ C.P. Cranch

• My Thoughts ~ C.P. Cranch

• The Riddle ~ C.P. Cranch

• The Ocean ~ C.P. Cranch

• Letters from Italy on the Representatives of Italy ~ S.G. Ward

• To the Ideal ~ Ellen Hooper

• Record of the Months 

• Michael Angelo considered as a Philosophical Poet ~ R.W. Emerson

• Robbins's "Worship of the Soul" ~ R.W. Emerson

• Rodman's "Voice from the Prison"  ~ Margaret Fuller

• Hawthorne's "Grandfather's Chair" ~ Margaret Fuller

No. IV (Volume I, number 4): April 1841

• The Unitarian Movement in New England ~ W.D. Wilson

• Dream ~ J.F. Clarke

• Ideals of Every-Day Life. Number II. Home ~ J.S. Dwight

• Listen to the Wind ~ Caroline Tappan

• The Wind Again ~ Caroline Tappan

• Leila ~ Margaret Fuller

• Poems on Art ~ J.F. Clarke

• Hermitage ~ W.E. Channing

• The Angel and the Artist ~ Caroline Tappan

• Shelley ~ John M. Mackie

• A Dialogue. Poet, Critic ~ Margaret Fuller

• Thoughts on Labor ~ Theodore Parker

• The Out-Bid ~ Ellen Hooper

• Theme for a World-Drama ~ W.E. Channing

• Man the Reformer ~ R.W. Emerson

• Music of the Winter ~ J.F. Tuckerman

• Farewell ~ Ellen Hooper

No. V (Volume II, number 1): July 1841

No. VI (Volume II, number 2): October 1841

• Cupid's Conflict [Selected by A. Bronson Alcott] ~ Henry More

• Lives of the Great Composers, Haydn, Mozart, Handel, Bach, Beethoven ~ Margaret Fuller

• Light and Shade ~  Caroline Tappan

• Friendship ~ H.D. Thoreau

• Painting and Sculpture ~ R.W. Emerson

• Fate ~ R.W. Emerson

• Woodnotes. No. II ~ R.W. Emerson

• A Glimpse of Christ's Idea of Society ~ Elizabeth Peabody

• Poems on Life 

• Windmill ~ Caroline Tappan

• Festus ~  Margaret Fuller

• Walter Savage Landor ~ R.W. Emerson

• Inworld ~  C.P. Cranch

No. VII (Volume II, number 3): January 1842

No. VIII (Volume II, number 4): April 1842

No. IX (Volume III, number 1): July 1842

No. X (Volume III, number 2): October 1842

No. XI (Volume III, number 3): January 1843

No. XII (Volume III, number 4): April 1843

No. XIII (Volume IV, number 1): July 1843

No. XIV (Volume IV, number 2): October 1843

No. XV (Volume IV, number 3): January 1844

No. XVI (Volume IV, number 4): April 1844

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