Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

Garcilaso de la Vega(1498–1501–1536)

Garcilaso de la Vega is documented in Fuller’s reading notebooks (1825). One work is named, all in Reading Notebook 1825–1827, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “excerpted”.

Engagement
ExcerptedQuotedReadMentioned
Present in
Notebooks
Documented
1825
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

“Oh Thou, more cold and obdurate than stone / Canst Thou relentless hear my bitter moan / Amid the torturing flames while I consume / With calm indifference view my opening tomb.”
Eclogue I ('Lamentation of Salicio') · Reading Notebook 1825–1827 · 1825

When Fuller engaged with Garcilaso de la Vega

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence1record
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
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.

Vega in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1825—

Reading Notebook 1825–1827

pp. 37–42
excerpted · quoted · readSearch Digital Fuller (page unverified)
“Oh Thou, more cold and obdurate than stone / Canst Thou relentless hear my bitter moan / Amid the torturing flames while I consume / With calm indifference view my opening tomb.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Reading Notebook 1825–1827." Houghton Library, Harvard University.

This is an English translation of the first part of Garcilaso de la Vega's Eclogue I ('Salicio's song'), with the refrain 'Flow freely, tears, tis meet that ye should flow.' The translator is not identified in the notebook.