Author
Mark Akenside is documented in Fuller’s books (1846). One work is named, most often in Papers on Literature and Art, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “quoted”.
Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this author is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“Poets—dwell on earth, / To clothe whate'er the soul admires and loves, / With language and with numbers." Akenside.”
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.
The passage is from The Pleasures of Imagination (1744); attributed 'Akenside' directly in the text.
Undated
Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.
“Poets — dwell on earth, To clothe whate'er the soul admires and loves, With language and with numbers.”
Fuller, Margaret. Art, Literature, and the Drama. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. New York: The Tribune Association, 1869. · p67