Author

Benjamin Fiske Barrett(1808–1892)

Benjamin Fiske Barrett 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 “analyzed”.

Engagement
AnalyzedReadMentioned
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1846
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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 Benjamin Fiske Barrett

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.

Barrett in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1846—

Papers on Literature and Art

p163
analyzed · read
“As to Mr. Barrett's discourse, the basis of Swedenborgianism had seemed to us broader than such a corner stone would lead us to suppose.”

Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.

1846—

Swedenborgianism

“Swedenborgianism”
mentioned
“THE CORNER STONE of the New Jerusalem, by B. F. Barrett. New York: Bartlett and Wellford, Astor House; John Allen, 139 Nassau-street, 1845.”

Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. · p335

Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p335; page given is to the 1869 reprint.