1845—
Italy.
“Italy.”mentioned
“CARY’S DANTE. Illustrated with twelve Engravings from Flaxman’s designs—from the last corrected London Edition.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Italy." New-York Daily Tribune, 13 November 1845. · 13 November 1845
Author
Henry Francis Cary
Henry Francis Cary is documented in Fuller’s books and published essays (1845). 2 distinct works are named, most often in Italy., and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.
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- AnalyzedQuotedReadMentioned
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- 1845
Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)
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 Henry Francis Cary’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
- undatedtranslation of Dante's ParadisoDemonstrated
“When vigor failed the towering fantasy, But yet the will rolled onward, like a wheel In even motion by the love impelled That moves the sun in heaven, and all the stars.”
Life Without and Life Within (essays)
Full four-line verse passage from Cary's Dante translation quoted verbatim.
In Fuller’s words
“When vigor failed the towering fantasy, But yet the will rolled onward, like a wheel In even motion by the love impelled That moves the sun in heaven, and all the stars.”
When Fuller engaged with Henry Francis Cary
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Cary in Fuller’s reading world
Documentary evidence
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
1845—
Italy.
“Italy.”analyzed · read
“we think, then, that the use of Cary's translation, or any other, can never be to diffuse a knowledge of Dante.”
Also reprinted in Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Counted once, at its first appearance.
Fuller, Margaret. "Italy." New-York Daily Tribune, 18 November 1845. · 18 November 1845
Undated
Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.
n.d.—
Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems
B-1-09, line 4317quoted · read
“When vigor failed the towering fantasy, But yet the will rolled onward, like a wheel In even motion by the love impelled That moves the sun in heaven, and all the stars.”
Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860.
Preserved in the Memoirs (1852)
Passages surviving only in the posthumous Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, compiled by Emerson, Channing, and Clarke.
Undated
Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.
n.d.—
Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
Mem-2-05, line 10269read
“An edition of Cary's translation, reprinted in Boston many years ago, was rapidly sold”
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.