The story of Orpheus's failed attempt to rescue Eurydice is used to evoke a future time when women can save men in an essay that also decries the cliché that "every strong woman" is said to have "a masculine mind"; that essay, "The Great Lawsuit," was included in her later book Woman in the Nineteenth Century.
Robert Lowell noted a voice that was like "the crackling of thorns under a pot" in a poem about this author's death by drowning. A crash course in German at the urging of Thomas Carlyle helped this writer produce the first English translation of Eckermann's Conversations with Goethe, and this author included the short poem "To a Friend" in a catalogue of a journey west which also includes one of the first calls for preservation of Native American societies, A (*) Summer on the Lakes. The story of Orpheus's failed attempt to rescue Eurydice is used to evoke a future time when women can save men in an essay that also decries the cliché that "every strong woman" is said to have "a masculine mind"; that essay, "The Great Lawsuit," was included in her later book Woman in the Nineteenth Century. Called by Emerson the "best-read person in all of New England," for 10 points, name this Transcendentalist writer best known for editing that movement's journal, The Dial.
Robert Lowell noted a voice that was like "the crackling of thorns under a pot" in a poem about this author's death by drowning.
{Margaret Fuller}