“We should regret that the press of affairs has prevented an earlier notice of this little volume, if it were not that we thus gain leisure for a deliberate word, which merits claim.”
Author
Christopher Pearse Cranch
Christopher Pearse Cranch is documented in Fuller’s letters, published essays, and journals (1844–1849). 7 distinct works are named, most often in Cranch’s Poems., and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.
- Engagement
- AnalyzedQuotedReadMentioned
- Present in
- Letters · Essays · Journals
- Documented
- 1844–1849
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
“He breathed the air of realms enchanted, He bathed in seas of dreamy light, And seeds within his soul were planted That bore us flowers for use too bright, Unless it were to stay some wand’ring spirit’s flight.”
When Fuller engaged with Christopher Pearse Cranch
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Cranch in Fuller’s reading world
Documentary evidence
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
1844—
Cranch’s Poems.
“Cranch’s Poems.”analyzed · quoted · read5 selected passages
“He breathed the air of realms enchanted, He bathed in seas of dreamy light, And seeds within his soul were planted That bore us flowers for use too bright, Unless it were to stay some wand’ring spirit’s flight.”
“She has brought me flowers to deck my room, Of sweetest scent and brilliancy; She knew not that she was the while The fairest flower of all to me.”
“The ‘Aurora Boealis’ and ‘The Blind Seer’ are poems of true dignity.”
“Tell me, brother, what are we?”
Fuller, Margaret. "Cranch’s Poems." New-York Daily Tribune, 12 Dec. 1844.
1846—
Music.
“Music.”analyzed · read
“Such have we received from an “Address delivered before the Harvard Musical Association, in the Chapel of the University at Cambridge, August, 1845, by CHRISTOPHER P. CRANCH.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Music." New-York Daily Tribune, 31 January 1846. · 31 January 1846
1848—
Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . XXI.
“Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . XXI.”mentioned
“Cranch has made a picture for Mr. Ogden Haggerty of a fine mountain hold of old Colonna story.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . XXI." New-York Daily Tribune, 19 February 1848. · 19 February 1848
1848—
Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . XXIII.
“Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . XXIII.”quoted · read
“High on a rugged mountain, gray and old, Gray like the rocks themselves – where heat and cold For centuries with the battlements have striven,...”
Fuller, Margaret. "Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . XXIII." New-York Daily Tribune, 4 May 1848. · 4 May 1848
1849—
The Letters of Margaret Fuller, Vol. V: 1848-1849
letter_0803analyzed · read
“Pearse's Colonna poem was incorporated into one of my letters with mention of the picture... The poem from Naples I never sent.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Undated
Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.
n.d.—
Journal 1840
M-032.txt line 2848analyzed · readManuscript page
“Stanzas. Cranch”
Fuller, Margaret. "Journal 1840." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (85); Box 5 (85).