Author
James Gates Percival is documented in Fuller’s reading notebooks (1826). One work is named, all in Reading Notebook 1825–1827, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “excerpted”.
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 →
“Clouds – Percival. / Though poetry find much on earth / Suited to it high purpose, yet the sky / Is its peculiar home; and most of all, / When it is shadowed by a shifting veil / Of clouds like to the curtain of a stage / Beautiful in itself and yet concealing / A more exalted beauty! … Who would not pardon me this invocation / To things like clouds.”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“Clouds – Percival.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Reading Notebook 1825–1827." Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Attributed 'Clouds – Percival.' James Gates Percival (1795–1856) was a prominent American Romantic poet of the 1820s, considered the leading American poet of the decade.