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The Dial

A Magazine for Literature, Philosophy, and Religion

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Thoreau's Contributions to The Dial

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

• Sympathy

• Aulus Persius Flaccus

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

• Stanzas ("Nature doth have her dawn each day...")

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

• Sic Vita

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

• Friendship ("Let such pure hate still underprop...")

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

• Natural History of Massachusetts

• "Great God, I ask the for no meaner pelf..."

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

• The Black Knight

• The Inward Morning

• Free Love

• The Poet's Delay

• Rumors from an Æolian Harp

• The Moon

• To the Maiden in the East

• The Summer Rain

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

• The Laws of Menu [Selected]

• The Prometheus Bound [Translated]

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

• Anacreon [With translations]

• Ethical Scriptures. Sayings of Confucius [Selected]

• To a Stray Fowl

• Orphics.  I. Smoke.  II. Haze

• Dark Ages

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

• Ethical Scriptures. Chinese Four Books [Selected]

• A Winter Walk

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

• Homer. Ossian. Chaucer

• Pindar [Notes and translations]

• The Preaching of Buddha [Selected]

• Ethical Scriptures. Hermes Trismegistus [Selected]

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

• Herald of Freedom

• Fragments of Pindar [Translated]

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