Author

Jonathan Swift(1667–1745)

Jonathan Swift is documented in Fuller’s letters and reading notebooks (1826). 2 distinct works are named, most often in Letter to Elizabeth Peabody, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “excerpted”.

Engagement: ExcerptedQuotedReadMentioned
Present in: Letters · Notebooks
Documented: 1826

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

“Then I went through that necessary and noble course of study (viz reading prefaces … nothing is so very tender as a modern piece of wit … wit has its walks and porticos, out of which it may not stray the breadth of a hair upon point of being lost … Swift.”

A Tale of a Tub · Reading Notebook 1825–1827 · 1826

When Fuller engaged with Jonathan Swift

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence1record

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

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.

Swift in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1826—

Reading Notebook 1825–1827

pp. 130–131

excerpted · quoted · readSearch Digital Fuller (page unverified)

“Then I went through that necessary and noble course of study (viz reading prefaces … nothing is so very tender as a modern piece of wit … wit has its walks and porticos, out of which it may not stray the breadth of a hair upon point of being lost … Swift.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Reading Notebook 1825–1827." Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Attributed 'Swift.' on p. 130 and again on p. 131.

Undated

Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.

n.d.—

Letter to Elizabeth Peabody

p114

quoted · read

“tis as Swift's cookmaid says "a sad scrawl" and I cannot add as she does in palliation, "My sister Mary she writes better”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.