Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

John Galt(1779–1839)

John Galt is documented in Fuller’s books (1843). One work is named, all in Summer on the Lakes, in 1843, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “read”.

Engagement
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1843
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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

“an Indian brave, accustomed to ramble in such paths, and be bathed by such sunbeams, might be mistaken for Apollo, as Apollo was for him by West.”
The Life, Studies, and Works of Benjamin West, Esq., President of the Royal Academy of London · Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 · 1843

When Fuller engaged with John Galt

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York1record
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.

Galt in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1843—

Summer on the Lakes, in 1843

read
“an Indian brave, accustomed to ramble in such paths, and be bathed by such sunbeams, might be mistaken for Apollo, as Apollo was for him by West.”

Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1844.

Inferred Fuller writes 'as Apollo was for him by West,' alluding to the famous story told in John Galt's biography of Benjamin West (1738–1820): when West first saw the Apollo Belvedere in Rome in 1760, he compared its pose to a young Mohawk warrior, astonishing his Italian hosts.