Author
August von Platen is documented in Fuller’s manuscripts (1841). One work is named, all in Reading Notes, 1841, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “excerpted”.
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 →
“From Count Platen, The spirit ever sighs forward into the distance, / And would always stretch further and further: / Never could I long cleave to a clod, / Though I had an Eden on every side.”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“From Count Platen, The spirit ever sighs forward into the distance, / And would always stretch further and further: / Never could I long cleave to a clod, / Though I had an Eden on every side.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Reading Notes, 1841." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1221 (Caroline Sturgis Tappan papers, 1838–1921).