Margaret Fuller, Critic: Writings from the New-York Tribune, 1844-1846Judith Mattson Bean, Joel Myerson Ardent feminist, leader of the transcendentalist movement, participant in the European revolutions of 1848-49, and an inspiration for Zenobia in Hawthorne's Blithedale Romance and the caricature Miranda in James Russell Lowell's Fable for Critics, Margaret Fuller was one of the most influential personalities of her day. |
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... beauty was a standard used fre- quently in the Transcendental Dial but less often in the Tribune . Fuller's Dial criticism included lengthy scholarly essays appropriate for the quarterly peri- odicals but less useful for the Tribune. In ...
... beauty of character and manner, they were willing to hear the speaker through, always went away discontented. They were accustomed to an artifi- cial method, whose scaffolding could easily be retraced, and desired an obvi- ous sequence ...
... paint on a gold ground. And a very different, but no less natural, because also a celestial beauty, is given to their works who choose for their foundation the color of the sunbeam, which nature has “Emerson's Essays” 5.
... beauty maken us prize them more? Then they are good, indeed, and more immortal than mortal. Let that test be applied to these; essays which will lead to great and complete poems—somewhere. Review of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: Second ...
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