Author

Rufus Wilmot Griswold(1815–1857)

Rufus Wilmot Griswold is documented in Fuller’s letters and published essays (1845–1847). 3 distinct works are named, most often in Letter to Evert A. Duyckinck, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

Engagement: AnalyzedQuotedReadMentioned
Present in: Letters · Essays
Documented: 1845–1847

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 Rufus Wilmot Griswold’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.

undatedBiographical Introduction to The Prose Works of MiltonDemonstrated
“Mr. Griswold thus closes his "Biographical Introduction:" "On Sunday, the eighth day of November, 1674... John Milton died. He was the greatest of all human beings...”
Papers on Literature and Art
Substantial multi-sentence verbatim quotation of Griswold's closing biographical passage on Milton's death.

In Fuller’s words

“Mr. Griswold thus closes his 'Biographical Introduction:' 'On Sunday, the eighth day of November, 1674, one month before completing his sixty-sixth year, John Milton died. He was the greatest of all human beings: the noblest and the ennobler of mankind. He has steadily grown in the world's reverence, and his fame will still increase with the lapse of ages.' [...] Mr. Griswold justly and wisely observes: 'Milton is more emphatically American than any author who has lived in the United States.”

Biographical Introduction · The Prose Works of John Milton. With a Biographical Introduction . . . · 1845

When Fuller engaged with Rufus Wilmot Griswold

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York1record

VI. Europe2records

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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1844

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1850

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

Griswold in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1845—

The Prose Works of John Milton. With a Biographical Introduction . . .

“The Prose Works of John Milton. With a Biographical Introduction . . .”

quoted · read

“Mr. Griswold thus closes his 'Biographical Introduction:' 'On Sunday, the eighth day of November, 1674, one month before completing his sixty-sixth year, John Milton died.”

Also reprinted in Papers on Literature and Art. Counted once, at its first appearance.

Fuller, Margaret. "The Prose Works of John Milton. With a Biographical Introduction . . ." New-York Daily Tribune, 7 October 1845. · 7 October 1845

1846—

D’Israeli’s Curiosities of Literature . . .

“D’Israeli’s Curiosities of Literature . . .”

analyzed · read

“D’ISRAELI’S CURIOSITIES OF LITERATURE, WITH CURIOSITIES OF AMERICAN LITERATURE, by RUFUS W. GRISWOLD; complete in one volume.”

Fuller, Margaret. "D’Israeli’s Curiosities of Literature . . ." New-York Daily Tribune, 25 February 1846. · 25 February 1846

1847—

Letter to Evert A. Duyckinck

read

“I have just seen in the 'Literary World' a notice of Mr Griswold's attack on my judgment of 'Witchcraft.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. IV. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.