Author

Richard Lovelace(1617–1657)

Richard Lovelace is documented in Fuller’s letters, books, and published essays (1841–1845). 2 distinct works are named, most often in Review., and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

Engagement: AnalyzedQuotedReadMentioned
Present in: Letters · Books · Essays
Documented: 1841–1845

Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

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

“We will mention, as among the most beautiful of these, “The Drop of Dew” by Marvel, “The Grasshopper” by Lovelace, “Primroses” by Herrick, and “Sweet Phospher bring the Day” by Quarles.”

The Grasshopper · Review. · 1845

When Fuller engaged with Richard Lovelace

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist1record

V. New York3records

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)1record

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

Lovelace in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1841—

Letter to William H. Channing

p213

analyzed · quoted · read

“I could not love thee, sweet, so much / Loved I not honor more.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.

Inferred Fuller quotes the famous closing couplet of the poem: 'I could not love thee, dear, so much, / Loved I not Honour more.' Fuller's text reads 'honor' (American spelling) rather than 'Honour.' Fuller cites it to contrast with the Emerson verse — preferring the Lovelace statement of loyalty to honor over purely personal devotion.

1845—

Woman in the Nineteenth Century

p55

quoted · read

“I could not love thee, dear, so much, / Loved I not honor more.”

Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.

Inferred Lines 'I could not love thee, dear, so much, / Loved I not honor more' are from Lovelace's 'To Lucasta, Going to the Wars' (1649). Famous closing couplet of Lovelace's 'To Lucasta, Going to the Wars' (Lucasta, 1649). Fuller quotes it without attribution as an example of the English ideal of love.

Fuller quotes it without attribution as an example of the English ideal of love.

1845—

Review.

“Review.”

quoted · read3 selected passages

“To all such of a pure native feeling acquaintance with those here given from Marvell, Crashaw, Lovelace, Quarles and Herrick, will be a treasure.”

“We will mention, as among the most beautiful of these, “The Drop of Dew” by Marvel, “The Grasshopper” by Lovelace, “Primroses” by Herrick, and “Sweet Phospher bring the Day” by Quarles.”

“O thou, that awing’st upon the waving hair Of some well-filled oaten beard, Drunk ever night with a delicious tear Dropped thee from heaven, where now thou’rt reared!”

Fuller, Margaret. "Review." New-York Daily Tribune, 16 January 1845.

Preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

Passages surviving only in the posthumous Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, compiled by Emerson, Channing, and Clarke.

1852—

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

p44

quoted · read

“I could not love thee, sweet, so much, Loved I not honor more.”

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 In her private writings, Margaret Fuller engages with Richard Lovelace's collection Lucasta: Epodes, Odes, Sonnets, Songs, &c. (1649), citing the renowned closing lines from his poem "To Lucasta, Going to the Wars." Fuller adapts Lovelace's declaration that she loves her companion "so much, Loved I not honor more," demonstrating her value for honor as a primary principle, even above personal affection, through this well-known poetic quotation.