Author

Thomas Campbell(1777–1844)

Thomas Campbell is documented in Fuller’s books and manuscripts (1819–1846). 9 distinct works are named, most often in Modern British Poets, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “excerpted”.

Engagement: ExcerptedAnalyzedQuotedReadMentioned
Present in: Books · Manuscripts
Documented: 1819–1846

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 →

Confirmed reading

Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had Thomas Campbell’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.

undatedStanzas addressed to John KembleDemonstrated
“The admired stanzas addressed to John Kemble. A majesty possessed His transport's most impetuous tone.”
Papers on Literature and Art
Substantial multi-line stanza from Campbell's poem reproduced (25-line excerpt range) in a critical essay.

In Fuller’s words

“First — There is Campbell — a poet; simply a poet — no philosopher. His forte is strong conception, a style free and bold; occasionally a passage is ill-finished, but the lights and shades are so happily distributed, the touch so masterly and vigorous, with such tact at knowing where to stop, that we must look for the faults in order to see them.”

Modern British Poets

When Fuller engaged with Thomas Campbell

I. Childhood1record

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe6records

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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1820

1832

1836

1844

1846

1850

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

Campbell in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1819—

Penmanship Practice: "Love your enemies"

excerpted · quoted · readManuscript page

“Come bright improvement, on the car of time, And rule the spacious world from clime to clime”

Fuller, Margaret. "Penmanship Practice: "Love your enemies"." Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Inferred Inferred based on the verbatim excerpt from Campbell's poem. on the car of Time, / And rule the spacious world from clime to clime.' Fuller's copy omits the comma after 'improvement' and drops the exclamation point and capital on 'Improvement,' but the text is otherwise verbatim.

1846—

Papers on Literature and Art

p58

excerpted · analyzed · quoted · read2 selected passages

“The Mariners of England" is just what it should be”

“dying Gertrude's lips is not more "bland, more beautiful" ... can be insensible to the charms of Constance, the matron counterpart to Gertrude's girlhood?”

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

1846—

Modern British Poets

“Modern British Poets”

analyzed · quoted · read4 selected passages

“Lochiel" is what it should be, a wild, breezy symphony, from the romantic Highlands.”

Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p70; page given is to the 1869 reprint.

“As for the sweet tale of "Wyoming," the expression of the dying Gertrude's lips is not more "bland, more beautiful," than the music of the lay in which she is embalmed.”

“Witness one of his poems, which has never received its meed of fame; I allude to Theodric. Who can be insensible to the charms of Constance, the matron counterpart to Gertrude's girlhood ?”

“The stanzas addressed to John Kemble I have never heard admired to the fulness of my feeling. Can any thing be finer than this ?”

Inferred Fuller’s words — “The stanzas addressed to John Kemble I have never heard admired to the fulness of my feeling. Can any thing be finer than this ? " A majesty possessed His transport's mos…” — point to Stanzas Addressed to John Kemble, but she does not give the work’s full title or author here; the identification of the specific work is the editor’s.

Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p72; page given is to the 1869 reprint.

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

Undated

Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.

n.d.—

Notes on Books, Children, and Faith

quoted · read2 selected passagesManuscript page

“And I, the eagle of my tribe, have rushed / With this lone dove”

“Gem of the crimson-coloured even”

Inferred Fuller quotes 'Gem of the crimson-coloured even,' identified as the opening line of Thomas Campbell's poem 'The Evening Star' (also known as 'Song to the Evening Star').

Fuller, Margaret. "Notes on Books, Children, and Faith." Houghton Library, Harvard University.

n.d.—

Early Reading Notes on Ballads

analyzed · readManuscript page

“Of the modern ballads in this collection – Campbell's, "Lord Ullin's daughter" Goulone's "Maid of Corinth" _ and "Glenlyon's Wassail" please me best.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Early Reading Notes on Ballads." Houghton Library, Harvard University.

n.d.—

Modern British Poets

“Modern British Poets”

analyzed · read

“First — There is Campbell — a poet; simply a poet — no philosopher.”

Fuller, Margaret. Art, Literature, and the Drama. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. New York: The Tribune Association, 1869. · p67