Author

Henry Fielding(1707–1754)

Henry Fielding is documented in Fuller’s books (1846). No work is named in the surviving passages, all in Modern British Poets, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “mentioned”.

Engagement: Mentioned
Present in: Books
Documented: 1846

Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

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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

“Wordsworth scrutinizes man and nature with the exact and searching eye of a Cervantes, a Fielding, or a Richter, but without any love for that humorous wit which cannot obtain its needful food unaided by such scrutiny; while dissection merely for curiosity's sake is his horror.”

Modern British Poets · 1846

When Fuller engaged with Henry Fielding

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe1record

✦. Memoirs (1852)1record

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1836

1844

1846

1850

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

Documentary evidence

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

1846—

Modern British Poets

“Modern British Poets”

mentioned

“Wordsworth scrutinizes man and nature with the exact and searching eye of a Cervantes, a Fielding, or a Richter, but without any love for that humorous wit which cannot obtain its needful food unaided by such scrutiny; while dissection merely for curiosity's sake is his horror.”

Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. · p100

Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p100; page given is to the 1869 reprint.

Preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

Passages surviving only in the posthumous Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, compiled by Emerson, Channing, and Clarke.

1852—

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

p24

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“Sometimes the simple picture, warm with life and the light of the common sun, cannot fail to charm, — as in the wedded love of Fielding^s Amelia”

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.