Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

James Hogg(1770–1835)

James Hogg is documented in Fuller’s books, published essays, journals, reading notebooks, and manuscripts (1827–1846). 2 distinct works are named, most often in Reading Notebook 1825–1827, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “excerpted”.

Engagement
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Books · Essays · Journals · Notebooks · Manuscripts
Documented
1827–1846
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

“Nearer and dearer to hearts like ours was the Ettrick Shepherd, then in his full tide of song and story; but nearer and dearer still than he, or any living songster — to us dearer — was our ill-fated fellow-craftsman, Tannahill, who had just then taken himself from a neglecting world, while yet that world waxed mellow in his lay.”
Poets of the People · 1846

When Fuller engaged with James Hogg

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence1record
III. Self-Directed1record
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York1record
VI. Europe1record
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850

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

Hogg in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1827—

Reading Notebook 1825–1827

pp. 133–134
excerpted · quoted · readSearch Digital Fuller (page unverified)
“Kilmeny looked up with a lovely grace, / But nae smile was seen on Kilmeny's face; / As still was her look and as still was her ee, / As the stillness that lay on the emerald lea … For Kilmeny had been she knew not where, / And Kilmeny had seen what she could not / declare.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Reading Notebook 1825–1827." Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Attributed 'Queen's Wake.' at the end on p. 134.

1833—

Journal 1833–1834

p27
read
“I am true sister to the poor viewhunters / The Ethrick shepherd satirized so drolly”

Fuller, Margaret. "Journal 1833–1834." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (4); Box 5 (83).

1845—

Thom’s Poems.

“Thom’s Poems.”
mentioned
“Nearer and dearer to hearts like ours was the Ettrick Shepherd, then in his full tide of song and story”

Fuller, Margaret. "Thom’s Poems." New-York Daily Tribune, 22 August 1845. · 22 August 1845

1846—

Poets of the People

“Poets of the People”
mentioned
“Nearer and dearer to hearts like ours was the Ettrick Shepherd, then in his full tide of song and story; but nearer and dearer still than he, or any living songster — to us dearer — was our ill-fated fellow-craftsman, Tannahill, who had just then taken himself from a neglecting world, while yet that world waxed mellow in his lay.”

Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. · p182

Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p182; page given is to the 1869 reprint.

Undated

Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.

n.d.—

Early Reading Notes on Ballads

p3
analyzed · quoted · readManuscript page
“Spirit of the Storm" — Hogg. / "His face was like the spectre wan, / How gliding from the midnight isle's; / His stature on the mighty plan / Of smoke-tower o'er the burning pile.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Early Reading Notes on Ballads." Houghton Library, Harvard University.