Author
James Russell Lowell is documented in Fuller’s letters, books, and published essays (1843–1848). 2 distinct works are named, most often in Edgar A. Poe., and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.
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 →
“I am not bold enough to esteem these essays of any great price. Standing as yet only in the outer porch of life, I cannot be expected to report those higher mysteries which lie in the body unrevealed in the body of the temple.”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“The Indian legends have, often, an air of the wildest solitude, as has the one Mr. Lowell has put into verse, in his late volume.”
Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1844.
“This article is frank, earnest, and contains many just thoughts, expressed with force and point.”
“Talent may make friends for itself, but only genius can give to its creations the divine power of winning love and veneration.”
“In judging of the merit of an author, and assigning him his niche among our household gods, we have a right to regard him from our own point of view”
Fuller, Margaret. "Edgar A. Poe." New-York Daily Tribune, 24 January 1845.
“I am not bold enough to esteem these essays of any great price.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Review." New-York Daily Tribune, 21 January 1845. · 21 January 1845
“Love, Faith, and Peace, Thy lilies three, Bloom on a single heart’s frail stem That dares Truth’s unpaid bondmaid be;— Father! what lack we, having them?”
Fuller, Margaret. "The Liberty Bell for 1845." New-York Daily Tribune, 7 January 1845. · 7 January 1845
“We cannot say as much for Lowell, who, we must declare it, though to the grief of some friends, and the disgust of more, is absolutely wanting in the true spirit and tone of poesy.”
Fuller, Margaret. "American Literature." New-York Daily Tribune, 23 September 1846. · 23 September 1846
“He had for you Lowell's poems.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. V. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.
Inferred Hudspeth identified this as Lowell's Poems: Second Series (Boston, 1848), published late December 1847.