Author
George Chapman is documented in Fuller’s letters and reading notebooks (1836–1840). One work is named, most often in Letter to Caroline Sturgis, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “excerpted”.
Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)
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 →
“O! 'tis wondrous much / that the right vertuous touch / Of a well written soul to vertue moves / Nor have we souls to purpose, if their loves / Of fitting objects be not so inflamed." Chapman. [...] "Through all the pomp of kingdoms still he shines / And graceth all his graces." Chapman.”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
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Fuller, Margaret. "Notebook: Bouquet, 1836–1837." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (43); Box 6 (43).
Fuller quotes two passages attributed simply 'Chapman' without naming a specific work; the epigrams may be from his dedicatory verses or lesser-known poems. Specific work unidentified. Two separate passages attributed 'Chapman' on p60 and p71 respectively.
“Here are Chapman and Tennyson, and Mr E's letter which give me tomorrow.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.
Passages surviving only in the posthumous Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, compiled by Emerson, Channing, and Clarke.
“I believe I had the pleasure of making her acquainted with Chaucer, with Ben Jonson, with Herbert, Chapman, Ford, Beaumont and Fletcher, with Bacon, and Sir Thomas Browne.”
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.
Inferred In this passage, Fuller lists George Chapman among the esteemed authors she encountered, a group that also includes Chaucer, Ben Jonson, and Sir Thomas Browne. While no specific work by Chapman is named, the reference suggests Fuller's engagement with his oeuvre, an allusion corroborated by Emerson's recollection of introducing her to "Chapman" without further specification.