the Thoreau Log.
16 October 1842.

Margaret Fuller writes to Ralph Waldo Emerson:

  Apropos to the Italians, I am inclined to suspect H. T. of a grave joke upon my views with his “dauntless infamy.”—There is also abstraction for obstruction, which one would have thought such hacknied Shakespeare might have avoided.—I am a little vexed, having hoped my notice might met the eye of the poet. Henry’s verses read well, but meseems he has spoiled his “Rumors” &c by substituting

And simple truth on every tongue

for all the poems are unsung, or some such line which has the one that gave most character to the original and yet I admire the

tread of high souled men.

(The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 2:90 note)

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