Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

Graham's Magazine(1807–1882)

Graham's Magazine is documented in Fuller’s letters and published essays (1842–1845). One work is named, most often in Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

Engagement
AnalyzedReadMentioned
Present in
Letters · Essays
Documented
1842–1845
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 →

In Fuller’s words

“This number of Graham’s Magazine has a likeness of EDGAR A. POE, with a critique upon that critic and a brief outline of his career thus far, by James Russell Lowell.”
Edgar A. Poe. · 1845

When Fuller engaged with Graham's Magazine

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist1record
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.

Magazine in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1842—

Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson

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analyzed · read
“Milnes and Longfellow have tried each their power at doing it in verse, and have done better, probably, than I could, yet not well.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.

Inferred Fuller names Longfellow alongside Milnes as having translated Vita Nuova poems into verse, and she has read his translation, remarking that both translators "have done better, probably, than I could, yet not well." Longfellow's "The New Life of Dante" appeared in Graham's Magazine in 1843, the most likely version Fuller knew;

1845—

Edgar A. Poe.

“Edgar A. Poe.”
mentioned
“This number of Graham’s Magazine has a likeness of EDGAR A. POE, with a critique upon that critic and a brief outline of his career thus far, by James Russell Lowell.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Edgar A. Poe." New-York Daily Tribune, 24 January 1845. · 24 January 1845