“In the morng I went into the fields and passed the morng reading Moores Byron and inspiring delight in every breath.”
Author
Thomas Moore(1779–1852)
Thomas Moore is documented in Fuller’s letters, books, published essays, and manuscripts (1830–1846). 8 distinct works are named, most often in Summer on the Lakes, in 1843, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “excerpted”.
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- Documented
- 1830–1846
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 Thomas Moore’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
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- 1830"Tyrolese Song of Liberty"Attested
“read Moore beginning with that song which made Byron's friend's wife so melancholy for three hours or so”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Cambridge 30th March [1830]
Explicit statement 'read Moore beginning with that song'.
- 1830Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: With Notices of his LifeAttested
“I went into the fields and passed the morng reading Moores Byron and inspiring delight in every breath.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Cambridge 30th March [1830]
Explicit first-person statement 'passed the morng reading Moores Byron'.
In Fuller’s words
“In the morng I went into the fields and passed the morng reading Moores Byron and inspiring delight in every breath. Then I was happy— But after I came home I sat down where the west wind could blow on my cheek and read Moore beginning with that song which made Byron's friend's wife so melancholy for three hours or so”
When Fuller engaged with Thomas Moore
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Moore in Fuller’s reading world
- “St. Senanus and the Lady, in Irish Melodies”Inferred1837
- Lalla Rookh: An Oriental RomanceInferred1845
- Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: With Notices of His Life1830
- Life of Lord ByronInferred1843
- Reuben and Rose: A Tale of Romance
- The Epicurean: A Tale1837
- The Life and Death of Lord Edward FitzgeraldInferred1843
- The Works of Thomas MooreInferred1830
Documentary evidence
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
1830—
Letter to Amelia Greenwood
p163analyzed · read2 selected passages
“read Moore beginning with that song which made Byron's friend's wife so melancholy”
Inferred Fuller mentions a specific song—Moore's "Tyrolese Song of Liberty," which Byron habitually sang in a melancholy manner and which Mary Shelley (wife of Percy Shelley, Byron's friend) documented. The song appears in The Works of Thomas Moore and forms part of her broader engagement with the Moore biography.
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
1837—
Letter to Caroline Sturgis
p273analyzed · read2 selected passages
“I see him as often as St Senanus did his lovesick nymph. So I am like a saint in one thing, at least.”
Inferred Fuller alludes to "St Senanus and the Lady" from Thomas Moore's Irish Melodies, humorously comparing herself to the saint who refused a lovesick woman entry to his island monastery. Hudspeth identified the poem explicitly.
Hudspeth identified the poem explicitly.
“than such books as Moore's "Epicurean," or, if my memory play me true, than Lockhart's "Valerias,”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
1843—
Summer on the Lakes, in 1843
excerpted · quoted · read2 selected passages
“the Byronic "silent rages" of misanthropy”
Inferred The exact phrase 'silent rages' was used by Byron himself (as recorded by Thomas Moore, Life of Lord Byron, 1830, vol. 1) to describe his own childhood tantrums: 'he got into one of his "silent rages" (as he himself has described them), seized the frock with both his hands, rent it from top to bottom.'
“That noblest and loveliest of modern Preux, Lord Edward Fitzgerald, who came through Buffalo to Detroit and Mackinaw, with Brant, and was adopted into the Bear tribe by the name of Eghnidal, was struck, in the same way, by the delicacy of manners in the women.”
Inferred Fuller names Lord Edward Fitzgerald explicitly and quotes from his letters. Fuller quotes directly from Fitzgerald's words as published in Moore's biography.
Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1844.
1845—
New-York Daily Tribune
“The Celestial Empire” · November 13, 1845, November 1845 · p. 2quoted · read
“they suggest that state where "moonlight, and music, and feeling are one,”
Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860.
Inferred The phrase 'moonlight, and music, and feeling are one' is from Thomas Moore's 'The Light of the Haram,' one of the four tales within Lalla Rookh: An Oriental Romance (1817). The line appears in 'The Light of the Haram' as 'where moonlight, and music, and feeling are one.' Moore's Lalla Rookh was widely read in America in the 1840s and was a common reference within Fuller's intellectual circle.
1845—
The Child of the Islands . . .
“The Child of the Islands . . .”quoted · read
“As half in shade, and half in sun, This world along its course advances, May that side the sun’s upon Be all that shall ever meet thy glances.”
Fuller, Margaret. "The Child of the Islands . . ." New-York Daily Tribune, 26 July 1845. · 26 July 1845
1845—
Thomas Hood.
“Thomas Hood.”mentioned
“Now almost the last light has gone out of the galaxy that made the first thirty years of this age so bright. Wordsworth and Moore alone remain.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Thomas Hood." New-York Daily Tribune, 18 July 1845. · 18 July 1845
1845—
Thom’s Poems.
“Thom’s Poems.”mentioned
“Scott, Byron, Moore, breathed full enough to fan a good blaze.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Thom’s Poems." New-York Daily Tribune, 22 August 1845. · 22 August 1845
1846—
Papers on Literature and Art
p70analyzed · quoted · read2 selected passages
“I do not think either Moore or Coleridge can here vie with him”
“Mrs.”
Inferred Norton's book prefaced by Moore's verse 'As, half in shade and half in sun, / This world along its course advances...' — attributed to Moore by implication from context; specific poem unidentified. Moore's verses used as epigraph to Norton's poem. Referenced by another author (Norton) rather than directly by Fuller.
Mrs. Norton's book prefaced by Moore's verse 'As, half in shade and half in sun, / This world along its course advances...' — attributed to Moore by implication from context; specific poem unidentified.
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.
1846—
Modern British Poets
“Modern British Poets”analyzed · read
“And thou, Anacreon Moore, sweet warbler of Erin ! What an ecstasy of sensation must thy poetic life have been ! Certainly (.he dancing of the blood never before inspired so many verses.”
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. · p73
Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p73; page given is to the 1869 reprint.
Undated
Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.
n.d.—
Early Reading Notes on Ballads
p1analyzed · readManuscript page
“Moore's "Reuben and Rose" seems a jest on ballads so tripping and frippery in its manner.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Early Reading Notes on Ballads." Houghton Library, Harvard University.