Author

Joseph Rodman Drake(1795–1820)

Joseph Rodman Drake 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

“Tis the middle watch of a summer's night, / The earth is dark but the heavens are bright, / Nought is seen in the vault on high / But the moon and the stars and the cloudless sky”
The Culprit Fay · Reading Notebook 1825–1827 · 1825

When Fuller engaged with Joseph Rodman Drake

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.

Drake in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1825—

Reading Notebook 1825–1827

pp. 14–35
excerpted · quoted · readSearch Digital Fuller (page unverified)
“Tis the middle watch of a summer's night, / The earth is dark but the heavens are bright, / Nought is seen in the vault on high / But the moon and the stars and the cloudless sky”

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