Author

Matthew Arnold(1822–1888)

Matthew Arnold is documented in Fuller’s letters and published essays (1846–1849). One work is named, most often in Letter to William Wetmore Story, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

Engagement
AnalyzedReadMentioned
Present in
Letters · Essays
Documented
1846–1849
Totals count documented engagements, once at the earliest witness. How we count →

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 →

When Fuller engaged with Matthew Arnold

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe2records
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850

This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.

Arnold in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.

1846—

Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . II.

“Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . II.”
mentioned
“Dr. Arnold, too,—who lived as his family still live, here—diffused the same ennobling and animating spirit among those who knew him”

Fuller, Margaret. "Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . II." New-York Daily Tribune, 29 September 1846. · 29 September 1846

1849—

Letter to William Wetmore Story

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“I have been much pleased with Mr Clough's which he sent me and with those of two of his friends Burbidge and Arnold”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. V. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.

Hudspeth identified Matthew Arnold, whose first independent publication was The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems (1849).