1844—
Character of Sarah Clarke
p2excerpted · analyzed · quoted · readManuscript page
“It seems to me these lines of Flecknoe's would please her.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Character of Sarah Clarke." Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Author
Richard Flecknoe(c. 1605–c. 1677)
Richard Flecknoe is documented in Fuller’s manuscripts (1844). One work is named, all in Character of Sarah Clarke, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “excerpted”.
- Engagement
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- Manuscripts
- Documented
- 1844
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 Richard Flecknoe’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
- Dated
- 1844On Silence ("Still born Silence...")Demonstrated
“It seems to me these lines of Flecknoe's would please her. Still born Silence, from that art Flood gate of the deeper heart,...”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · Character of Sarah Clarke. as read by Miss Parsons from a letter. March 1844.
Manuscript notebook copies out multiple lines of Flecknoe's poem with continuation implied, a substantial passage copied with pen in hand.
In Fuller’s words
“It seems to me these lines of Flecknoe's would please her. / Still born Silence, from that art / Flood gate of the deeper heart, / Offspring of a heavenly kind, / Frost o' the mouth and thaw o' the mind, / Secrecy's confidant, and he / That makes religion mystery, / Admiration's speaking'st tongue / Leave thy desert shades, among / Reverend hermits' hallowed cells / Where retired't devotion dwells, / With thy enthusiasms come, / Seize this maid, and make her dumb.”
When Fuller engaged with Richard Flecknoe
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Flecknoe in Fuller’s reading world
Documentary evidence
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.