Author
Edgar Allan Poe is documented in Fuller’s letters, books, and published essays (1845–1849). 12 distinct works are named, most often in The Raven and Other Poems., 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 →
“Her foot upon the new-mown grass — bareheaded — with the flowing Of the virginal white vesture, gathered closely to her throat; With the golden ringlets in her neck, just quickened by her going, And appearing to breathe sun for air, and doubting if to float, — With a branch of dewy maple, which her right hand held above her, And which trembled a green shadow in betwixt her and the skies, — As she turned her face in going, thus she drew me on to love her, And to study the deep meaning of the smile hid in her eyes.”
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 Raven and other Poems, by Edgar A. Poe, 1845.”
Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860.
“[Hudspeth fn. 1]: In her review of The Raven and Other Poems, Fuller said that the book indicated 'a power to do something far better.' She was, however, impressed by 'To One in Paradise'.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. V. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.
Inferred Fuller reviewed Poe's The Raven and Other Poems in the New-York Daily Tribune (26 November 1845), as Hudspeth identified.
“In the greenest of our valleys, By good angels tenanted, Once a fair and stately palace—Radiant palace—rear’d its head. In the monarch Thought’s dominion—It stood there!”
“HELEN, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicéan barks of yore, That gently, o’er a perfum’d sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore To his own native shore.”
“A person of fine perceptions, and unacquainted with the writings of Mr. Poe, observed, on looking at this head of him”
Fuller, Margaret. "Edgar A. Poe." New-York Daily Tribune, 24 January 1845.
“Mr. Poe’s tales need no aid of newspaper comment to give them popularity; they have secured it. We are glad to see them given to the public in this neat form”
“The “Murders of the Rue Morgue” especially made a great impression upon those who did not know its author and were not familiar with his mode of treatment.”
“he had with him many books, but rarely employed them.”
“His results have, in truth, the whole air of intuition.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Tales; by Edgar A. Poe . . ." New-York Daily Tribune, 11 July 1845.
“Mr. Poe throws down the gauntlet in his preface, by what he says of “the paltry compensations or more paltry commendations of mankind.”
“A large band of these offended dignitaries and aggrieved parents must be on the watch for a volume of “Poems by Edgar A. Poe,”
“In defence of my own taste, it is incumbent upon me to say that I think nothing in this volume of much value to the public or very creditable to myself.”
“With the exception of The Raven, which seems intended chiefly to show the writer’s artistic skill, and is in its way a rare and finished specimen,”
“THOU wast all that to me, love, For which my soul did pine— A green isle in the sea, love, A fountain and a shrine,”
“Amid the earnest woes That crowd around my earthly path (Drear path, alas! where grows Not even one lonely rose.)”
“For her, the fair and debonair, that now so lowly lies, The life upon her yellow hair, but not within her eyes—”
“This kind of beauty is especially conspicuous, then rising into dignity, in the poem called “The Haunted Palace.”
“I stand beneath the mystic moon, An opiate vapor, dewy, dim, Exhales from out a golden rim, And, softly dripping, drop by drop,”
“The lily lolls upon the wave.”
“So is the “Bridal Ballad” in its power of suggesting a whole tribe and train of thoughts and pictures by few and simple touches.”
“The scenes from Politian are done with clear, sharp strokes; the power is rather metaphysical than dramatic.”
“In Heaven a spirit doth dwell “Whose heart-strings are a lute;” None sing so wildly well As the Angel Israfel,”
Fuller, Margaret. "The Raven and Other Poems." New-York Daily Tribune, 26 November 1845.
“Her foot upon the new-mown grass — bareheaded — with the flowing Of the virginal white vesture, gathered closely to her throat; With the golden ringlets in her neck, just quickened by her going, And appearing to breathe sun for air, and doubting if to float, — With a branch of dewy maple, which her right hand held above her, And which trembled a green shadow in betwixt her and the skies, — As she turned her face in going, thus she drew me on to love her, And to study the deep meaning of the smile hid in her eyes.”
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. · p203
Inferred Identification rationale not yet recorded.
Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p203; page given is to the 1869 reprint.
“Those fragments expressed the almost universal feeling towards Poe; several women loved him... He said in a sketch he published of me that he thought me capable of great affection.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. V. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.
Inferred Hudspeth identified this as Poe's fourth Literati essay published in Godey's Lady's Book in 1846