Author

PrudentiusInferred

Prudentius is documented in Fuller’s letters (1849). One work is named, all in The Letters of Margaret Fuller, Vol. V: 1848-1849, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “mentioned”.

Engagement
Mentioned
Present in
Letters
Documented
1849
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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 →

In Fuller’s words

“But St Lorenzo loved the poor When his tormentors insisted to know where he had hid his riches There he said pointing to the crowd of wretches”
Poems of Prudentius (hymn on St. Lawrence) · The Letters of Margaret Fuller, Vol. V: 1848-1849 · 1849

When Fuller engaged with Prudentius

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe1record
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850

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

Prudentius in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1849—

The Letters of Margaret Fuller, Vol. V: 1848-1849

letter_0791.txt, to Richard F. Fuller, 25 Jan 1849
mentioned
“But St Lorenzo loved the poor When his tormentors insisted to know where he had hid his riches There he said pointing to the crowd of wretches”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Inferred Editorial footnote 3 cites Poems of Prudentius as source of the Saint Lawrence legend/quotation Fuller recounts