Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

Arthur Hugh Clough(1819–1861)

Arthur Hugh Clough is documented in Fuller’s letters (1849–1850). 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
Documented
1849–1850
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 →

In Fuller’s words

“I have been much pleased with Mr Clough's which he sent me and with those of two of his friends Burbidge and Arnold, they are of the Emersonian kind, entirely out of all rule, not of high power, but genuine though imperfect reflexes of the higher life of their writers.”
The Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich / Ambarvalia · Letter to William Wetmore Story · 1849

When Fuller engaged with Arthur Hugh Clough

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.

Clough in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1849—

Letter to William Wetmore Story

p285
analyzed · read
“I have been much pleased with Mr Clough's which he sent me and with those of two of his friends Burbidge and Arnold, they are of the Emersonian kind, entirely out of all rule, not of high power, but genuine though imperfect reflexes of the higher life of their writers.”

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

Inferred Fuller says Clough "sent me" his poems and that she has "been much pleased" with them, commenting on their Emersonian style.

1850—

Letter to Arthur Hugh Clough

p64
read
“will you write some sincere words of you, at least as much so as you have put in your print.”

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

Inferred Fuller tells Clough she hopes he will write to her as sincerely as "you have put in your print"—referring to his published writings. At this date (February 1850), the most likely candidates are The Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich (1848) and Ambarvalia (1849, jointly with Thomas Burbidge), though no specific work is named.