Author

Robert Pollok(1798–1827)

Robert Pollok is documented in Fuller’s published essays (1845). One work is named, all in Festus: A Poem . . ., and the most intensive engagement recorded is “mentioned”.

Engagement
Mentioned
Present in
Essays
Documented
1845
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 →

When Fuller engaged with Robert Pollok

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York1record
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850

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

Pollok in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1845—

Festus: A Poem . . .

“Festus: A Poem . . .”
mentioned
“In seriousness, it may compete with Pollok's "Course of Time.”

Also reprinted in Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Counted once, at its first appearance.

Fuller, Margaret. "Festus: A Poem . . ." New-York Daily Tribune, 8 September 1845. · 8 September 1845