Author

Sir William Davenant(1606–1668)

Sir William Davenant is documented in Fuller’s journals (1836). One work is named, all in Journal December 1836, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “excerpted”.

Engagement
ExcerptedQuotedReadMentioned
Present in
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1836
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

“Davenant. / Doth it our reason's mutinies appease / To say, the potter may his own clay mould / To every use, or in what shape he please, / at first not counselled, nor at last controlled. / … / Death of Astragon.”
Gondibert: An Heroic Poem · Journal December 1836 · 1836

When Fuller engaged with Sir William Davenant

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist1record
V. New York
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850

This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.

Davenant in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1836—

Journal December 1836

p42–43
excerpted · quoted · readManuscript page
“Davenant. / Doth it our reason's mutinies appease / To say, the potter may his own clay mould / To every use, or in what shape he please, / at first not counselled, nor at last controlled.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Journal December 1836." Houghton Library, Harvard University; MS Am 1086; Box 3.