Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

Apollonius of Rhodes(c. 295–c. 215 BCE)

Apollonius of Rhodes is documented in Fuller’s books and published essays (1845–1846). One work is named, most often in Papers on Literature and Art, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “quoted”.

Engagement
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Documented
1845–1846
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 →

In Fuller’s words

“So that I often recollect what is said of the poet Phineas in the Argonautics: 'A stupor deep his cloudy temples bound, / And when he waked he seemed as whirling round, / Or in a feeble trance he speechless lay.”
Argonautica · Papers on Literature and Art · 1846

When Fuller engaged with Apollonius of Rhodes

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York1record
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.

Rhodes in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1845—

The Prose Works of John Milton. With a Biographical Introduction . . .

“The Prose Works of John Milton. With a Biographical Introduction . . .”
quoted · read
“So that I often recollect what is said of the poet Phineas in the Argonautics: 'A stupor deep his cloudy temples bound, And when he waked he seemed as whirUng round, Or in a feeble trance he speechless lay.”

Fuller, Margaret. "The Prose Works of John Milton. With a Biographical Introduction . . ." New-York Daily Tribune, 7 October 1845. · 7 October 1845

1846—

Papers on Literature and Art

p41
quoted · read
“So that I often recollect what is said of the poet Phineas in the Argonautics: 'A stupor deep his cloudy temples bound, / And when he waked he seemed as whirling round, / Or in a feeble trance he speechless lay.”

Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.