Author
George Wither is documented in Fuller’s manuscripts (1841). One work is named, all in On Dreams and Sorrow, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “quoted”.
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 →
Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had George Wither’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
“Who is well entered in these wayes / Fittst man to read my fifty layes. / But whom lust, wrath, and fear controul / Scarce know their body from their soul”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · 5th Jan [1841 - inferred from heading '5th Jan' with pencil addition '1841']
Full four-line stanza from Wither's Shepherd's Hunting quoted verbatim.
“Who is well entered in these wayes / Fittst man to read my fifty layes. / But whom lust, wrath, and fear controul / Scarce know their body from their soul”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“Who is well entered in these wayes / Fittst man to read my fifty layes. / But whom lust, wrath, and fear controul / Scarce know their body from their soul”
Fuller, Margaret. "On Dreams and Sorrow." Boston Public Library Archives & Special Collections; MS Am. 1450; Box 3, Folder 132.
Inferred Full four-line stanza from Wither's Shepherd's Hunting quoted verbatim.