Author

Charles Robert Maturin(1780–1824)

Charles Robert Maturin is documented in Fuller’s books and reading notebooks (1825–1846). 2 distinct works are named, most often in Reading Notebook 1825–1827, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “excerpted”.

Engagement: ExcerptedAnalyzedQuotedReadMentioned
Present in: Books · Notebooks
Documented: 1825–1846

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 →

In Fuller’s words

“Many of whose excitement, attraction; he sighed for above, but his heart denied him that … His powers, both physical and mental had been too early excited … he fell too easy the miserable misanthropy of premature excitement_ to men excitement may be useful to boys such is fatal. /”

Melmoth the Wanderer · Reading Notebook 1825–1827 · 1825

When Fuller engaged with Charles Robert Maturin

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence1record

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe1record

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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1846

1850

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

Maturin in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1825—

Reading Notebook 1825–1827

p. 58

excerpted · quoted · readSearch Digital Fuller (page unverified)

“Many of whose excitement, attraction; he sighed for above, but his heart denied him that … His powers, both physical and mental had been too early excited … he fell too easy the miserable misanthropy of premature excitement_ to men excitement may be useful to boys such is fatal.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Reading Notebook 1825–1827." Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Inferred Identification rationale not yet recorded.

1846—

Papers on Literature and Art

p113

analyzed · read

“Somewhere betwixt these and the mere acting plays stand such as Maturin's Bertram, Talfourd's Ion, and (now before me) Longfellow's Spanish Student.”

Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.