Author

George Crabbe(1754–1832)

George Crabbe is documented in Fuller’s books and manuscripts (1834–1846). No work is named in the surviving passages, most often in Notes on Books, Children, and Faith, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

Engagement
AnalyzedQuotedReadMentioned
Present in
Books · Manuscripts
Documented
1834–1846
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 →

In Fuller’s words

“There is no letter so noble and beautiful as Sir J. M's to Robert Hall on his recovery from insanity unless it be Crabbe's to Burke or D. Körner's to his partner.”
Notes on Books, Children, and Faith · 1834

When Fuller engaged with George Crabbe

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed1record
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.

Documentary evidence

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

1834—

Notes on Books, Children, and Faith

p3
“There is no letter so noble and beautiful as Sir J. M's to Robert Hall on his recovery from insanity unless it be Crabbe's to Burke or D. Körner's to his partner.”

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

1846—

Papers on Literature and Art

p67
analyzed · quoted · read
“Crabbe, that least imaginative of poets, can compare with him”

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

1846—

The Life of Sir James Mackintosh

“The Life of Sir James Mackintosh”
analyzed · read
“Compare it with the London experiment of the poet Crabbe, made known to us not long since by the pen of his son.”

Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. · p58

Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p58; page given is to the 1869 reprint.