Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

Frederick William Faber(1814–1863)

Frederick William Faber is documented in Fuller’s manuscripts (1839). One work is named, all in On Poesy, Love, and Dreams, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “quoted”.

Engagement
QuotedReadMentioned
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Documented
1839
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 →

Confirmed reading

Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had Frederick William Faber’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.

  • undatedWork not namedDemonstrated

    “There is a deep, clear mind, no inward change, Nor outward visitation get hath shocked Thy heart into a consciousness of power F. W. Faber.”

    Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)

    Substantial multi-line quoted verse passage from Faber.

In Fuller’s words

“There is a deep, clear mind, no inward change, / Nor outward visitation get hath shocked / Thy heart into a consciousness of power / F. W. Faber.”
The Cherwell Water-lily and Other Poems · On Poesy, Love, and Dreams · 1839

When Fuller engaged with Frederick William Faber

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.

Faber in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1839—

On Poesy, Love, and Dreams

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quoted · readSearch Digital Fuller (page unverified)
“There is a deep, clear mind, no inward change, / Nor outward visitation get hath shocked / Thy heart into a consciousness of power / F. W. Faber.”

Fuller, Margaret. "On Poesy, Love, and Dreams." Houghton Library, Harvard University; MS Am 1450.

Inferred Faber' but does not name a specific poem or collection. The lines describe a character of deep, clear mind unshocked by outward events — possibly addressed to a friend or to nature.

Fuller quotes three lines explicitly attributed to 'F. However the 1839 pencil cancellation date in the ms and the Faber attribution suggest Fuller had access to Faber's poetry in manuscript or early publication; the 1840 Cherwell Water-lily is the most likely published source. Fuller copies three lines of verse and attributes them explicitly to 'F.