Index of Individual Contributors To The Dial

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Amos Bronson Alcott (1799-1888)

• No. I (Vol. I., no. 1): July 1840:
  • Orphic Saying I-L
• No. III (Vol. I., no. 3): January 1841:
  • Orphic Saying LI-C
• No. VIII (Vol. II., no. 4): April 1842:
  • Days from a Diary

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Anonymous

• No. VI (Vol. II., no. 2): October 1841:
  • Poems on Life. I., II.
• No. VII (Vol. II., no. 3): January 1842:
  • De Profundis Clamavi
• No. IX (Vol. III., no. 1): July 1842:
  • [I asked the angels to come to me.]

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Charles Timothy Brooks (1813-1883)

• No. XVI (Vol. IV., no. 4): April 1844:
  • The Emigrants. From the German of Freiligrath.
  • The Moorish Prince. From the German of Freiligrath.

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James Elliot Cabot (1821-1903)

• No. XVI (Vol. IV., no. 4): April 1844:
  • Immanuel Kant

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William Ellery Channing (1780-1842)

• No. I (Vol. I., no. 2): October 1840:
  • [Why askest thou?]
  • Boat-Song
  • October
  • Willingness
  • Sonnets. I., II., III.
  • Lines written in the Evening of a November Day
  • Our Birth Days
  • A Poet’s Love
  • To . . .
  • [Thoughts]
  • Torments
• No. IV (Vol. I., no. 4): April 1841:
  • Hermitage
  • Theme for a World-Drama
• No. V (Vol. II., no. 1): July 1841:
  • Song
  • Sonnet to ___.
• No. IX (Vol. III., no. 1): July 1842:
  • Gifts
  • The Lover’s Song
  • Sea Song
  • The Earth-Spirit
  • Prayer
  • After-Life
  • To Shakespeare
• No. X (Vol. III., no. 2): October 1842:
  • Dirge
  • The Poet
• No. XI (Vol. III., no. 3): January 1843:
  • A Song of Spring
  • Anna
  • The River
  • Life
  • To . . .
  • Death
• No. XII (Vol. III., no. 4): April 1843:
  • Sonnets. I., II.
  • To . . .
  • To —.
  • The Friends
• No. XIII (Vol. IV., no. 1): July 1843:
  • The Youth of the Poet and the Painter. Letter I. to IV.
  • Spring
  • The Song of Birds in Spring
  • The Earth
  • An Old Man
  • The Journey
  • The Glade
• No. XIV (Vol. IV., no. 2): October 1843:
  • The Youth of the Poet and the Painter. Letter V. to IX.
  • Autumn
  • The Mother’s Grief
  • Allston’s Funeral
  • To the Muse
  • William Tell’s Story
• No. XV (Vol. IV., no. 3): January 1844:
  • The Youth of the Poet and the Painter. Letter X. to XIII.
  • Autumn Woods
  • The Fatal Passion. — A Dramatic Sketch.
• No. XVI (Vol. IV., no. 4): April 1844:
  • The Youth of the Poet and the Painter. Letter XIV. to XXVIII.
  • To Readers
  • Death of Shelley
  • A Song of the Sea
  • To the Poets

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William Henry Channing (1810-1884)

• No. I (Vol. I., no. 1): July 1840:
  • Ernest the Seeker. Chapter I.
• No. I (Vol. I., no. 2): October 1840:
  • Ernest the Seeker. Chapter II.
• No. V (Vol. II., no. 1): July 1841:
  • Day and Night
  • Wheat Seed and Bolted Flour
  • Need of a Diver

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Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880)

• No. XII (Vol. III., no. 4): April 1843:
  • What is Beauty?

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Eliza Thayer Clapp (1811-1888)

• No. V (Vol. II., no. 1): July 1841:
  • Two Hymns. I., II.
  • Clouds
  • “The Future is better than the Past.”
  • August Showers
• No. IX (Vol. III., no. 1): July 1842:
  • Autumn Leaves

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James Freeman Clarke (1810-1888)

• No. I (Vol. I., no. 2): October 1840:
  • First Crossing the Alleghanies
  • Nature and Art, or The Three Landscapes
• No. III (Vol. I., no. 3): January 1841:
  • Hymn and Prayer
  • To Nydia
• No. IV (Vol. I., no. 4): April 1841:
  • Dream
  • Poems on Art
• No. VII (Vol. II., no. 3): January 1842:
  • Plan of Salvation
• No. XII (Vol. III., no. 4): April 1843:
  • George Keats

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Sarah Freeman Clarke (1808-1896)

• No. I (Vol. I., no. 1): July 1840:
  • Dante

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Christopher Pearse Cranch (1813-1892)

• No. I (Vol. I., no. 1): July 1840:
  • To the Aurora Borealis
  • Stanzas
• No. I (Vol. I., no. 2): October 1840:
  • A Sign from the West
  • Musings of a Recluse
• No. III (Vol. I, no. 3): January 1841:
  • Endymion
  • The True in Dreams
  • Glimmerings
  • Correspondences
  • “Color and Light,” “My Thoughts,” “The Riddle,” and “The Ocean.”
• No. V (Vol. II., no. 1): July 1841:
  • The Blind Seer
• No. VI (Vol. II., no 2): October 1841:
  • Inworld
• No. VII (Vol. II., no. 3): January 1842:
  • Inworld [Repeated], and Outworld
• No. VIII (Vol. II., no. 4): April 1842:
  • Silence and Speech
• No. X (Vol. III., no. 2): October 1842:
  • The Artist

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George William Curtis (1824-1892)

• No. XIII (Vol. IV., no. 1): July 1843:
  • A Song of Death

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Charles Anderson Dana (1819-1897)

• No. VIII (Vol. II., no. 4): April 1842:
  • Herzliebste
• No. IX (Vol. III., no. 1): July 1842:
  • Eternity
• No. XIV (Vol. IV., no. 2): October 1843:
  • Via Sacra
• No. XV (Vol. IV., no. 3): January 1844:
  • To R. B. [Robert Bartlett.]

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John Sullivan Dwight (1813-1893)

• No. I (Vol. I., no. 1): July 1840:
  • The Religion of Beauty
• No. III (Vol. I, no. 3): January 1841:
  • Ideals of Every-Day Life [I]
• No. IV (Vol. I., no. 4): April 1841:
  • Ideals of Every-Day Life [II]

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Charles Chauncy Emerson (1808-1836)

• No. I (Vol. I., no. 1): July 1840:
  • Notes from the Journal of a Scholar
• No. XII (Vol. III., no. 4): April 1843:
  • A Leaf from “A Voyage to Porto Rico.”
• No. XIII (Vol. IV., no. 1): July 1843:
  • Notes from the Journal of a Scholar [II]

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Edward Bliss Emerson (1805-1834)

• No. I (Vol. I., no. 1): July 1840:
  • The Last Farewell

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Ellen Louisa Tucker Emerson (1811-1831)

• No. I (Vol. I., no. 1): July 1840:
  • Lines
• No. III (Vol. I., no. 3): January 1841:
  • The Violet

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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

• No. I (Vol. I., no. 1): July 1840:
  • The Editors to the Readers
  • To…[To Eva]
  • The Problem
• No. I (Vol. I., no. 2): October 1840:
  • Thoughts on Modern Literature
  • Silence
  • New Poetry
  • Wood Notes
  • Dana’s “Two Years Before the Mast” & Fourier’s “Social Destiny of Man.”
• No. III (Vol. I., no. 3): January 1841:
  • The Snow-Storm
  • Suum Cuique
  • The Sphinx
  • Thoughts on Art
  • Michael Angelo Considered as a Philosophical Poet
  • Robbin’s “Worship of the Soul.”
• No. IV (Vol. I., no. 4): April 1841:
  • Man the Reformer
• No. V (Vol. II., no. 1): July 1841:
  • Jones Very’s Essays and Poems
• No. VI (Vol. II., no. 2): October 1841:
  • Painting and Sculpture
  • Fate
  • Wood Notes [II]
  • Walter Savage Landor
• No. VII (Vol. II., no. 3): January 1842:
  • “The Park,” “Forebearance,” and “Grace.”
  • The Senses and the Soul
  • Transcendentalism
  • “The Ideal Man.”
• No. IX (Vol. III., no. 1): July 1842:
  • Introductory Lecture on the Times
  • Tact
  • The Amulet
  • Prayers
  • Veeshnoo Sarma [Selected]
  • Fourierism and the Socialists
  • Chardon Street and Bible Conventions
  • Agriculture of Massachusetts
  • Borrow’s “Zincali.”
  • Lockhart’s “Ancient Spanish Ballads.”
  • Colton’s “Tecumseh.”
  • Intelligence
• No. X (Vol. III., no. 2): October 1842:
  • Lectures on the Times II. The Conservative.
  • English Reformers
  • Saadi
  • Tennyson’s Poems
  • A Letter to Wm E. Channing, D.D.
  • Editor’s Table
• No. XI (Vol. III., no. 3): January 1843:
  • Lectures on the Times III. The Transcendenalist.
  • To Eva [Ellen] at the South
  • [Death of Dr. Channing]
  • Confessions of St. Augustine
• No. XII (Vol. III., no. 4): April 1843:
  • Europe and European Books
  • Borrow’s “Bible in Spain” and Paracelsus
• No. XIII (Vol. IV., no. 1): July 1843:
  • Gifts
  • Past and Present
  • To Rhea.
  • Pierpont’s Antislavery Poems, Garrison’s Poems, Coffin’s Poems, and Channing’s Poems.
  • To Correspondents
• No. XIV (Vol. IV., no. 2): October 1843:
  • The Three Dimensions
  • The Comic
  • Ode to Beauty
  • A Letter
  • New Books
• No. XV (Vol. IV., no. 3): January 1844:
  • Tantalus
  • Eros
  • The Times. A Fragment.
• No. XVI (Vol. IV., no. 4): April 1844:
  • The Young American
  • The Tragic
  • The Visit
  • Ethnical Scriptures. Chaldæan Oracles. [Selected]

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Margaret Fuller (1810-1850)

• No. I (Vol. I., no. 1): July 1840:
  • A Short Essay on Critics
  • A Record of Impressions
  • “A Dialogue” & Other Short Works
• No. I (Vol. I., no. 2): October 1840:
  • Angelica Sleeps-Berni.
  • The Atheneum Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture
• No. III (Vol. I, no. 3): January 1841:
  • Meta
  • The Magnolia of Lake Pontchartrain
  • Menzel’s View of Goethe
  • Record of the Months
• No. IV (Vol. I., no. 4): April 1841:
  • Leila
  • A Dialogue: Poet, Critic
• No. V (Vol. II., no. 1): July 1841:
  • Goethe
  • Notice of Recent Publications
  • To Contributors
• No. VI (Vol. II., no. 2): October 1841:
  • Lives of the Great Composers, Hayden, Mozart, Handel, Bach, Beethoven
  • Festus
• No. VII (Vol. II., no. 3): January 1842:
  • Yuca Filamentosa
  • Bettine Brentano and her friend Günderode
  • Epilogue to the Tragedy of Essex
  • Motherwell’s Poems
  • Goethe’s “Egmont”
  • Monaldi, a Tale
  • Wilde’s “Conjecture’s and Researches”
  • Boston Academy of Music
  • Theory of Teaching
• No. VIII (Vol. II., no. 4): April 1842:
  • Marie Van Oosterwich. Translated from the French
• No. IX (Vol. III., no. 1): July 1842:
  • Entertainments of the Past Winter
  • Hawthorne’s “Twice-told Tales”
  • Hawthorne’s “Stories for Children”
• No. X (Vol. III., no. 2): October 1842:
  • Romaic and Rhine Ballads
• No. XII (Vol. III., no. 4): April 1843:
  • Canova
  • Fetis’s “Music Explained”
• No. XIII (Vol. IV., no. 1): July 1843:
  • The Great Lawsuit
• No. XV (Vol. IV., no. 3): January 1844:
  • The Modern Drama
• No. XVI (Vol. IV., no. 4): April 1844:
  • Dialogue

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William Batchelder Greene (1819-1878)

• No. VII (Vol. II., no. 3): January 1842:
  • First Principles

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Frederic Henry Hedge (1805-1890)

• No. I (Vol. I., no. 2): October 1840:
  • The Art of Life, —— The Scholar’s Calling.
• No. III (Vol. I., no. 3): January 1841:
  • Questionings
• No. IX (Vol. III., no. 1): July 1842:
  • From Uhland. The Castle by the Sea.
• No. XI (Vol. III., no. 3): January 1843:
  • Schelling’s Introductory Lecture in Berlin. [Translated]

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Elizabeth Hoar (1814-1878)

• No. XI (Vol. III., no. 3): January 1843:
  • Discoveries in the Nubian Pyramids. [Translated]

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Ellen Sturgis Hooper (1812-1848)

• No. I (Vol. I., no. 1): July 1840:
  • [I slept and dreamed that life was Beauty]
• No. I (Vol. I., no. 2): October 1840:
  • The Poor Rich Man
  • The Wood Fire
  • The Poet
  • Wayfarers
• No. III (Vol. I., no. 3): January 1841:
  • To the Ideal
• No. IV (Vol. I., no. 4): April 1841:
  • The Out-Bid
  • Farewell
• No. VII (Vol. II., no. 3): January 1842:
  • The Hour of Reckoning
• No. X (Vol. III., no. 2): October 1842:
  • Lines (?)
• No. XIV (Vol. IV., no. 2): October 1843:
  • Sweep Ho! [The Chimney Sweep]

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Benjamin Peter Hunt (1808-1877)

• No. XIII (Vol. IV., no. 1): July 1843:
  • Voyage to Jamaica
• No. XIV (Vol. IV., no. 2): October 1843:
  • Voyage to Jamaica [cont.]
• No. XVI (Vol. IV., no. 4): April 1844:
  • Saturday and Sunday among the Creoles.

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Sarah Sprague Jacobs (1813-1902)

• No. IX (Vol. III., no. 1): July 1842:
  • Vespers

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Charles Lane (1800-1870)

• No. X (Vol. III., no. 2): October 1842:
  • James Pierrepont Greaves
  • Cromwell
• No. XI (Vol. III., no. 3): January 1843:
  • James Pierrepont Greaves [cont.]
• No. XII (Vol. III., no. 4): April 1843:
  • A. Bronson Alcott’s Works
• No. XIII (Vol. IV., no. 1): July 1843:
  • Social Tendencies
• No. XIV (Vol. IV., no. 2): October 1843:
  • A Day with the Shakers
  • Social Tendencies [cont.]
• No. XV (Vol. IV., no. 3): January 1844:
  • Brook Farm
  • Interior or Hidden Life
• No. XVI (Vol. IV., no. 4): April 1844:
  • Life in the Woods
  • The Millennial Chruch

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James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)

• No. III (Vol. I, no. 3): January 1841:
  • Sonnet. To a Voice heard in Mount Auburn, July, 1839.
• No. V (Vol. II., no. 1): July 1841:
  • Sonnet. “To die is gain.”
• No. VII (Vol. II., no. 3): January 1842:
  • Sonnets. I., II.
  • Sonnet. To Irene on her Birthday.

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John Milton Mackie (1813-1894)

• No. IV (Vol. I., no. 4): April 1841:
  • Shelley

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Theodore Parker (1810-1860)

• No. I (Vol. I., no. 1): July 1840:
  • The Diving Presence in Nature and in the Soul
• No. I (Vol. I., no. 2): October 1840:
  • A Lesson for the Day
  • Truth Against the World
  • Ranke’s “History of the Popes.”
• No. III (Vol. I., no. 3): January 1841:
  • German Literature
• No. IV (Vol. I., no. 4): April 1841:
  • Thoughts on Labor
• No. V (Vol. II., no. 1): July 1841:
  • The Pharisees
  • Protean Wishes
• No. VII (Vol. II., no. 3): January 1842:
  • Primative Christianity
• No. VIII (Vol. II., no. 4): April 1842:
  • Thoughts on Theology
  • Record of the Months
  • Republications
• No. X (Vol. III., no. 2): October 1842:
  • Hollis Street Council
• No. XI (Vol. III., no. 3): January 1843:
  • The Life and Character of Dr. Follen
• No. XIV (Vol. IV., no. 2): October 1843:
  • Hennell on the Origin of Christianity

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Elizabeth Palmer Peabody (1804-1894)

• No. VI (Vol. II., no. 2): October 1841:
  • A Glimpse of Christ’s Idea of Society
• No. VII (Vol. II., no. 3): January 1842:
  • Plan of the West Roxbury Community
• No. XVI (Vol. IV., no. 4): April 1844:
  • Fourierism

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Benjamin Franklin Presbury

• No. VII (Vol. II., no. 3): January 1842:
  • Sonnet. To Mary on her Birthday.
  • Music. To Martha.

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George Ripley (1802-1880)

• No. I (Vol. I., no. 1): July 1840:
  • Brownson’s Writings
• No. I (Vol. I., no. 2): October 1840:
  • Letter to a Theological Student

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Sophia Ripley (1803–1861)

• No. III (Vol. I., no. 3): January 1841:
  • Woman
• No. V (Vol. II., no. 1): July 1841:
  • Painting and Sculpture
  • Letter

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Jonathan Ashley Saxton (1795-1874)

• No. V (Vol. II., no. 1): July 1841:
  • Prophecy. — Transcendentalism. — Progress.

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Thomas Treadwell Stone (1801-1895)

• No. III (Vol. I, no. 3): January 1841:
  • Man in the Ages
• No. VII (Vol. II., no. 3): January 1842:
  • [Calvinist’s Letter]

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Caroline Sturgis Tappan (1818-1888)

• No. I (Vol. I., no. 2): October 1840:
  • The Day Breaks
  • Life
  • Evening
  • From Goethe
  • Pæan
  • Lyric
  • Waves
  • Art and Artist
  • Life and Death
  • The Dream
• No. III (Vol. I., no. 3): January 1841:
  • Afternoon
  • Love and Insight
  • Sunset
  • Give us an Interpreter
  • [Birds shooting swiftly through air and light]
• No. IV (Vol. I., no. 4): April 1841:
  • Listen to the Wind
  • The Wind Again
  • The Angel and the Artist
• No. V (Vol. II., no. 1): July 1841:
  • Bettina
  • Lines
• No. VI (Vol. II., no. 2): October 1841:
  • Light and Shade
  • Windmill
• No. IX (Vol. III., no. 1): July 1842:
  • Outward Bound
• No. XI (Vol. III., no. 3): January 1843:
  • The Brook
• No. XV (Vol. IV., no. 3): January 1844:
  • Lines

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William A. Tappan (1812-1882)

• No. XIV (Vol. IV., no. 2): October 1843:
  • The Sail

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Henry D. Thoreau (1817-1862)

• No. I (Vol. I., no. 1): July 1840:
  • Sympathy
  • Aulus Persius Flaccus
• No. III (Vol. I., no. 3): January 1841:
  • Stanzas (“Nature doth have her dawn each day…”)
• No. V (Vol. II., no. 1): July 1841:
  • Sic Vita
• No. VI (Vol. II., no 2): October 1841:
  • Friendship (“Let such pure hate still underprop…”)
• No. IX (Vol. III., no. 1): July 1842:
  • Natural History of Massachusetts
  • “Great God, I ask the for no meaner pelf…”
• No. X (Vol. III., no. 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 (Vol. III., no. 3): January 1843:
  • The Laws of Menu [Selected]
  • The Prometheus Bound [Translated]
• No. XII (Vol. III., no. 4): April 1843
  • Anacreon [With translations]
  • Ethnical Scriptures. Sayings of Confucius [Selected]
  • To a Stray Fowl
  • Orphics. I. Smoke — II. Haze
  • Dark Ages
• No. XIV (Vol. IV., no. 2): October 1843:
  • Ethnical Scriptures. Chinese Four Books [Selected]
  • A Winter Walk
• No. XV (Vol. IV., no. 3): January 1844:
  • Homer. Ossian. Chaucer
  • Pindar [Notes and translations]
  • The Preaching of Buddha [Selected]
  • Ethnical Scriptures. Hermes Trismegistus [Selected]
• No. XVI (Vol. IV., no. 4): April 1844:
  • Herald of Freedom
  • Fragments of Pindar [Translated]

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John Francis Tuckerman (1817-1885)

• No. IV (Vol. I., no. 4): April 1841:
  • Music of the Winter

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Samuel Gray Ward (1817-1907)

• No. I (Vol. I., no. 1): July 1840:
  • To W. Allston on seeing his “Bride”
  • Song
  • The Shield
  • Come Morir?
• No. III (Vol. I., no. 3): January 1841:
  • Letters from Italy on the Representatives of Italy
• No. X (Vol. III., no. 2): October 1842:
  • The Gallery
• No. XIII (Vol. IV., no. 1): July 1843:
  • Notes on Art and Architecture
• No. XV (Vol. IV., no. 3): January 1844:
  • Translations of Dante
• No. XVI (Vol. IV., no. 4): April 1844:
  • The Twin Loves
  • The Consolers

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Charles Stearns Wheeler (1816-1843)

• No. XI (Vol. III., no. 3): January 1843:
  • [Letter from Heidelberg.]
• No. XII (Vol. III., no. 4): April 1843:
  • [Letter from Heidelberg.]

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William Dexter Wilson (1868-1900)

• No. I (Vol. I., no. 1): July 1840:
  • Channing’s Translation of Jouffroy
• No. IV (Vol. I., no. 4): April 1841:
  • The Unitarian Movement in New England

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Jones Very (1813-1880)

• No. V (Vol. II., no. 1): July 1841:
  • The Barberry Bush
• No. IX (Vol. III., no. 1): July 1842:
  • The Evening Choir
  • The World