Author
Fitz-Greene Halleck is documented in Fuller’s letters and published essays (1839–1846). One work is named, most often in Letter to Caroline Sturgis, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “read”.
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 →
Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had Fitz-Greene Halleck’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
“Red Jacket, a Chief of the Indian Tribes, the Tuscaroras. __ "Thou were monarch born! Tradition's pages...”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · 1835 Nov-
Manuscript notebook entry copying out a substantial verse passage from Halleck's poem.
“Hallock and Willis are poets of society. Though the former has written so little, yet that little is full of fire—elegant, witty, delicate in sentiment.”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“This other book contains Halleck's Red Jacket which I think I promised to show you. Keep both till I come.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.
“Hallock and Willis are poets of society. Though the former has written so little, yet that little is full of fire—elegant, witty, delicate in sentiment.”
Fuller, Margaret. "American Literature." New-York Daily Tribune, 23 September 1846. · 23 September 1846