Author
Theocritus is documented in Fuller’s manuscripts. One work is named, all in A Drive Through the Country: A Dialogue on Love, Duty, and Taste, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “read”.
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 →
No datable encounters with Theocritus have been catalogued yet.
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
Undated
Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.
“In all the idyls I ever read they were told in caves or beside a trickling fountain”
Fuller, Margaret. "A Drive Through the Country: A Dialogue on Love, Duty, and Taste." Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Inferred Theocritus is inferred as the primary author of the form; the title is inferred as the Idylls (the foundational collection of the genre).