The Dial: A Magazine for Literature, Philosophy, and Religion

History and Selections

Volume I, July 1840-April 1841

Ralph Waldo Emerson:

• The Editor to the Reader.
• To *** [To Eva]. Poem.
• The Problem. Poem.
• Thoughts on Modern Literature.
• Thoughts on Art.
• The Sphinx. Poem.
• Woodnotes Poem.
• New Poetry.
• Review of Two Years Before the Mast.
• Review of Michael Angelo, Considered as a Philosophic Poet [John Edward Taylor].
• Man the Reformer. Essay.
• Review of Social Destiny of Man [Albert Brisbane.]

Amos Bronson Alcott:

• Orphic Sayings in The Dial

Margaret Fuller:

• A Short Essay on Critics. Essay.
• A Dialogue. Poem.

Ellen Sturgis [Hooper]:

• [I slept and dreamed that life was Beauty]
• The Poor Rich Man
• The Wood-Fire.
• The Poet.
• Wayfarers
• To The Ideal
• The Out-bid
• Farewell

Sophia Ripley:

• "Woman.

Caroline Sturgis [Tappan]:

• Life. Poem.
• Lyric. Poem.
• Art and Artist. Poem.

Henry David Thoreau:

• Sympathy.
• Aulus Persius Flaccus.
• Stanzas. Poem.

James Russell Lowell:

• Sonnet: To a Voice Heard in Mount Auburn, July, 1839.

C. P. Cranch:

• To the Aurora Borealis
• Stanzas [later titled "Enosis"]. Poem.
• Correspondences
• The Ocean. Poem.

Frederic Henry Hedge:

• Questionings. Poem.

Volume II, July 1841-April 1842.

Ralph Waldo Emerson:

• Review of Essays and Poems [Jones Very].
• Walter Savage Landor.
• The Senses and the Soul.
• Transcendentalism. Essay.
• Prayers. EmersonCentraL.com.
• Chardon Street and Bible Conventions.
• Agriculture/Massachusetts.
• Review of The Zincali: or an Account of the Gypsies of Spain; with an Original Collection of their Songs and Poetry. [George Borrow]
• Review of Ancient Spanish Ballads, Historical and Romantic. [Translated, By J. G. Lockhart.
• Review of Tecumseh; a Poem. [George H. Colton]
• Intelligence. On the Exploring Expedition.
• Harvard University.
• English Reformers. Essay.
• Review of Poems. Alfred Tennyson.
• Review of Letter to W. E. Channing. [Orestes Brownson.]

Elizabeth Palmer Peabody

• Plan of the West Roxbury Community. Essay. The Dial, January 1842.

Henry David Thoreau:

• Sic Vita
• Friendship

Volume III, July 1842-April 1843

Ralph Waldo Emerson:

• Fourierism and the Socialists
• Literary Intelligence. [Death of Dr. Channing]
• Augustine's Confessions.
• Europe & European Books. Essay.
• Review of The Bible in Spain. [George Borrow]
• Review of Paracelsus. [Robert Browning]
• Review of Past and Present
• Review of Antislavery Poems. [John Pierpont]
• Review of Sonnets and Other Poems. [William Lloyd Garrison]
• Review of America - an Ode. [N. W. Coffin]
• Poems. [William Ellery Channing]
• A Letter.
• Review of The Huguenots in France and America.
• Review of The Spanish Student. A Play in Three Acts [H. W. Longfellow]
• Review of The Dream of a Day, and Other Poems [James G. Percival]

Henry David Thoreau:

• Natural History of Massachusetts
• The Summer Rain
• The Laws of Menu
• Ethnical Scriptures: Sayings of Confucius
• The Inward Morning. Poem.
• Rumors from an Aeolian Harp. Poem.
• Prometheus Bound of Æschylus

William Ellery Channing:

• Gifts. Poem.
  
• The Earth-Spirit. Poem.
  
• The River. Poem.

Lydia Maria Child:

• What is Beauty? Essay.

Volume IV, July 1843-April 1844.

Margaret Fuller:

• The Great Debate. Man versus Men. Woman versus Women.

Ralph Waldo Emerson:

• The Tragic.

Caroline Sturgis [Tappan]:

• Lines. Poem.

Henry David Thoreau:

• Ethnical Scriptures: Chinese Four Books
• A Winter Walk. Essay.

Charles Lane

• Brook Farm. Essay.
• Life in the Woods. Essay.