Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

John Keble(1792–1866)

John Keble is documented in Fuller’s published essays and manuscripts (1835–1846). One work is named, most often in Poems, Others, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “excerpted”.

Engagement
ExcerptedAnalyzedQuotedReadMentioned
Present in
Essays · Manuscripts
Documented
1835–1846
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 →

Confirmed reading

Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had John Keble’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.

  • Dated
  • 1835The Christian YearDemonstrated

    “Keble's Christian Year. "Burial of the Dead.”

    Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · 1835 Nov-

    Manuscript entry spans 17 pages (10-27) of Keble's poem, indicating substantial copying in her reading notebook.

In Fuller’s words

“Keble's Christian Year. "Burial of the Dead." ... "Who says, the wan autumnal sun / Beams with too faint a smile / To light up nature's face again ..." ... Christian Year. [page 27] "Then cheerly to your work again / With hearts new-braced and set ...”
The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holydays throughout the Year · Poems, Others · 1835

When Fuller engaged with John Keble

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed1record
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
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.

Keble in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1835—

Poems, Others

pp9–12, 27
excerpted · analyzed · quoted · readManuscript page
“Keble's Christian Year. "Burial of the Dead." ... "Who says, the wan autumnal sun / Beams with too faint a smile / To light up nature's face again ..." ... Christian Year.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Poems, Others." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086.

On page 27, she copies further lines from The Christian Year ('Then cheerly to your work again'), attributed simply 'Christian Year.' She follows the second Keble quotation with critical commentary ('The very faults of these two pieces have a charm... The secret this of Rest below') precedes the explicit Keble attribution; this may itself be from The Christian Year's 'Morning' section.

1846—

Lyra Innocentium.

“Lyra Innocentium.”
mentioned
“Keble does not know this, but his sweetness and tenderness of temperament save him, in some measure, from the consequences of mistake.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Lyra Innocentium." New-York Daily Tribune, 8 August 1846. · 8 August 1846