“Elliott, Nicol, Prince, and Thom find enough in the hedgerows that border their everyday path”
Author
William Thom(1798–1848)
William Thom is documented in Fuller’s books and published essays (1845–1847). 8 distinct works are named, most often in Thom’s Poems., and the most intensive engagement recorded is “excerpted”.
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- Books · Essays
- Documented
- 1845–1847
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 →
Confirmed reading
Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had William Thom’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
- undatedRhymes and Recollections of a Hand-Loom Weaver (Preface)Demonstrated
“The narrative portion of these pages," says Thom, "is a record of scenes and circumstances interwoven with my experience...”
Papers on Literature and Art
Very large surrounding line range (~111 lines) indicates a sustained verbatim quotation from Thom's preface.
In Fuller’s words
“The narrative portion of these pages," says Thom, " is a record of scenes and circumstances interwoven with my experience — with my destiny. * * The feelings and fancies, the pleasure and the pain that hovered about my aimless existence were all my own — my property. These aerial investments I held and fashioned into measured verse.”
When Fuller engaged with William Thom
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Thom in Fuller’s reading world
Documentary evidence
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
1845—
Prince’s Poems.
“Prince’s Poems.”mentioned2 selected passages
“this is the case with Elliott, and with Thom, of whose writings we shall soon give some notice.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Prince’s Poems." New-York Daily Tribune, 13 August 1845.
1845—
Thom’s Poems.
“Thom’s Poems.”analyzed · quoted · read11 selected passages
“We cannot give a notion of the plan and contents of this little volume better than by copying some passages from the Preface”
“The self-portraiture herein attempted is not altogether Egotism neither, inasmuch as the main lineaments of the sketch are to be found in the separate histories of a thousand families in Scotland”
“It is no small share in the end and aim of the present little work, to impart to one portion of the community a glimpse of what is sometimes going on in another”
“The miserably rich look upon the miserably poor with distrust and dread, scarcely giving them credit for sensibility sufficient to feel their own sorrows.”
“The poor, in turn, foster a hatred of the wealthy as a sole inheritance—look on grandeur as their natural enemy, and bend to the rich man’s rule in gall and bleeding scorn.”
“I write no more either than what I knew—and not all of that—so Feeling has left Fancy little to do in the matter.”
“We’ll meet in the you wood, ’neath a starless sky, When wrestling leaves forsake ilk tree; We mauna speak mair o’ the days gane by”
“They speak o’ wyles in woman’s smiles, An’ ruin in her e’e— I ken they bring a pang at whiles That’s unco sair to dree”
“Oh! let me gang, ye dinna ken How sair my mither flate yestreen— An’, mourin’ o’er and o’er again, Speir’d whaur I gaed sae later at e’en.”
“Auld Scotland cried “Welcome your Queen!” Ilk glen echoed “Welcome your Queen!” While turret and tower to mountain and moor, Cried “Wauken and welcome out Queen!”
“Slowly, slowly the cauld moon creeps Wi’ a licht unlo’esome to see; It dwalls on the window whaur my love sleeps, An’ she winna wauken to me.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Thom’s Poems." New-York Daily Tribune, 22 August 1845.
1846—
Papers on Literature and Art
p1excerpted · analyzed · quoted · read
“RHYMES AND RECOLLECTIONS OP A HAND-LOOM WEAVER. By William Thom, of Iverury. Second Edition, with Additions. London, 1845”
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.
1846—
Poets of the People
“Poets of the People”analyzed · quoted · read6 selected passages
“The narrative portion of these pages," says Thom, " is a record of scenes and circumstances interwoven with my experience — with my destiny.”
Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p176; page given is to the 1869 reprint.
“THEY SPEAK O' WYLES. Air " Gin a bodie meet a bodie." They speak o' wyles in woman's smiles, An' ruin in her e'e — I ken they bring a pang at whiles That's unco sair to dree;”
Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p183; page given is to the 1869 reprint.
“Upon the remembrance of one of his rather grave doings, the song of 'Mary' is composed.”
Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p186; page given is to the 1869 reprint.
“They are all interesting in different ways.”
“A Chieftain Unknown to the Queen," expresses many thoughts that arose in our own mind as we used to read the bulletins of the Royal Progress through Scotland so carefully transferred to the columns of American journals.”
“Whisper Low" is perhaps the best specimen of song as song, to be found in this volume.”
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.
1847—
Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . VIII.
“Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . VIII.”mentioned
“One of the Poets of the People, also, I saw—the sweetest singer of them all. —Thom. “A Chieftain unknown to the Queen” is again exacting a cruel tribute from him.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . VIII." New-York Daily Tribune, 2 February 1847. · 2 February 1847
Undated
Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.
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Poets of the People
“Poets of the People”quoted · read2 selected passages
“An' syne whan nichts grew cauld an' lang, Ae while he sicht— ae while he sang.”
“Am — " Lass, gin you lo'e me, tell me noo" We'll meet in yon wood, 'neath a starless sky, When wrestling leaves forsake ilk tree;”
Fuller, Margaret. Art, Literature, and the Drama. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. New York: The Tribune Association, 1869.