Author
Plotinus is documented in Fuller’s books and journals (1842–1843). No work is named in the surviving passages, most often in Summer on the Lakes, in 1843, 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 →
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“Reading Proclus and Plotinus. Yes it is very true that their thought is more sustained and virgen than any other.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Journal Fragments, 1842." Margaret Fuller Family Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard University.
“Silently, his head averted, he ignored their existence, as Plotinus or Sophocles might that of a modern reviewer.”
Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1844.
Inferred Fuller invokes Plotinus and uses him as a type of serene philosophical detachment ? the immortal genius utterly indifferent to petty contemporary criticism.