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Horace is documented in Fuller’s letters, books, and published essays (1841–1848). 2 distinct works are named, most often in Letter to James Nathan, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “quoted”.
Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)
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 →
“This demoniacal impulse and power, which were ascribed to the Canidias of ancient superstition, may be seen subtly influencing the members of every-day society.”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“I will hope for a letter from you soon, to tell how Horace and Xenophon and Goodenow go on”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.
Inferred Fuller asks how 'Horace and Xenophon and Goodenow go on' as Richard's studies; she is aware of and guiding his curriculum, naming Horace as a classical author Richard is reading.
“without it you would not have had your Horace and Virgil stimulated by whose society you read the woods and fields to more advantage”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.
“This demoniacal impulse and power, which were ascribed to the Canidias of ancient superstition, may be seen subtly influencing the members of every-day society.”
Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1844.
Inferred Fuller uses 'Canidias' (plural) as a type ? a malevolent witch who injures through her presence ? drawn from 'ancient superstition.' Canidia is best known from Horace's “Epodes V and XVII” (c. 30 BCE), where she is a terrifying witch who uses magic for harm. The name became a literary type for the malevolent witch.
“the pure silver haze he will cast around shall be more efficient than armor of triple brass against all evil powers.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. IV. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.
Inferred Fuller's image of 'armor of triple brass against all evil powers' echoes Horace's celebrated phrase from Odes 1.3.9–10, 'aes triplex' (triple bronze around the breast), the standard 19th-century allusion for extraordinary invulnerability and protection.
“of the child who, hearing her father quote Horace, observed she 'thought Latin was even sillier than French.”
Also reprinted in Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Counted once, at its first appearance.
Fuller, Margaret. "Italy." New-York Daily Tribune, 18 November 1845. · 18 November 1845
“the pure silver haze he will cast around, shall be more efficient than armour of triple brass against all evil powers.”
Fuller, Margaret. Love-Letters of Margaret Fuller, 1845-1846. With an introduction by Julia Ward Howe. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1903.
Inferred Although Fuller does not name Horace or the Odes, her knowledge of Latin and classical literature suggests a deliberate invocation of this commonplace.
“just as the banner was ready to unfold its young glories in the home of Horace, Virgil and Tacitus”
Fuller, Margaret. "Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . XIX." New-York Daily Tribune, 29 January 1848. · 29 January 1848
Passages surviving only in the posthumous Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, compiled by Emerson, Channing, and Clarke.
“Horace was a great deal to me then, and is so still.”
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.
Inferred While Fuller does not cite a specific work, she offers an extended character sketch, describing Horace with "a self-sufficient grace, and an appreciation of the world of stern realities, sometimes pathetic, never tragic." Her declaration, "Horace was a great deal to me then, and is so still," underscores the enduring significance of his profound influence on her intellectual development.