Author
Ebenezer Elliott is documented in Fuller’s letters, books, and published essays (1832–1846). One work is named, most often in Prince’s Poems., and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.
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 →
“Elliott, Nicol, Prince, and Thorn find enough in the hedge-rows that border their every day path; — they need not steal an entrance to padlocked flower gardens, nor orchards guarded by man-traps and spring-guns.”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“Here are the Cornlaw Rhymes!”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.
Fuller names "the Cornlaw Rhymes" explicitly, referring to Ebenezer Elliott's protest poetry against the Corn Laws that kept bread prices high for the poor, as Hudspeth identified.
“It is just true what Ebenezer Elliott says, that "Festus contains poetry enough to set up fifty poets”
Also reprinted in Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Counted once, at its first appearance.
Fuller, Margaret. "Festus: A Poem . . ." New-York Daily Tribune, 8 September 1845. · 8 September 1845
“Elliott, Nicol, Prince, and Thom find enough in the hedgerows that border their everyday path”
“Into the soul of Elliott, the iron has entered”
Also reprinted in Papers on Literature and Art. Counted once, at its first appearance.
“But most waters show the color of the soil through which they had to force their passage; this is the case with Elliott”
Fuller, Margaret. "Prince’s Poems." New-York Daily Tribune, 13 August 1845.
“Elliott, Nicol, Prince, and Thorn find enough in the hedge-rows that border their every day path; — they need not steal an entrance to padlocked flower gardens, nor orchards guarded by man-traps and spring-guns.”
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. · p188
Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p188; page given is to the 1869 reprint.