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John Keats is documented in Fuller’s letters, books, published essays, and journals (1840–1850). 2 distinct works are named, most often in Summer on the Lakes, in 1843, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.
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 →
“So full-orbed Cynthia walks the skies, / Filling the earth with melodies, / Even so she condescends to kiss / Drowsy Endymions, coarse and dull, / Or fills our waking souls with bliss, / Making long nights too beautiful.”
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 see Shelley in his letter to Gifford makes the same distinction in favor of Keats's Hyperion over his other works that you did.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.
“On Shelley and Keats_ Quote Shelley's letter to Gifford.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Journal 1840." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (85); Box 5 (85).
“So full-orbed Cynthia walks the skies, / Filling the earth with melodies, / Even so she condescends to kiss / Drowsy Endymions, coarse and dull, / Or fills our waking souls with bliss, / Making long nights too beautiful.”
Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1844.
Inferred Based on allusion to Cynthia (epithet of Selene/Artemis as full moon) and Endymion: the myth of the moon goddess who fell in love with the sleeping shepherd-prince of Mount Latmus. Cynthia descends nightly to kiss the eternally sleeping Endymion.
“Of the Cockney school he seems to us the only genuine Cockney (though in Keats we find a slight taint of the same kind, but no more of that to-day.)”
Fuller, Margaret. "The Indicator; by Leigh Hunt . . ." New-York Daily Tribune, 11 July 1845. · 11 July 1845
“as also a beautiful miniature of Keats from which an engraving is being made for his “Life” by Milnes, soon to appear.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . VIII." New-York Daily Tribune, 2 February 1847. · 2 February 1847
“she has at times hoped much you would sometime have dollars enough to traverse land and waves and see some beauteous sights that will be to her memory a joy forever.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.
Inferred Fuller writes "a joy forever," evoking the opening line of Keats's Endymion (1818): "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever." She does not name Keats explicitly; the phrase is woven into her own prose describing beautiful Italian sights.
Passages surviving only in the posthumous Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, compiled by Emerson, Channing, and Clarke.
“Shelley, Coleridge, and Keats she also sought to interest me in.”
Fuller, Richard Frederick. Recollections of Richard F. Fuller. Boston: privately printed, 1936.
Inferred Richard Fuller states that Margaret 'sought to interest me in' Shelley, Coleridge, and Keats.