Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

Edmund Waller(1606–1687)Inferred

Edmund Waller is documented in Fuller’s books (1846). One work is named, all in Papers on Literature and Art, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “excerpted”.

Engagement
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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

“It was well and beautifully said by a then living poet, 'The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, / Lets in new light through chinks that time has made.”
"Of the Last Verses in the Book," in Divine Poems · Papers on Literature and Art · 1846

When Fuller engaged with Edmund Waller

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

Waller in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1846—

Papers on Literature and Art

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excerpted · quoted · read
“It was well and beautifully said by a then living poet, 'The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, / Lets in new light through chinks that time has made.”

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

Inferred Quoted via Forster's Life of Strafford (see R-20), where Forster attributes them to 'a then living poet.' The lines 'The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, / Lets in new light through chinks that time has made' are verbatim from Edmund Waller, 'Of the Last Verses in the Book' (1686).