Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

Christopher Wordsworth(1807–1885)

Christopher Wordsworth is documented in Fuller’s manuscripts. One work is named, all in Wordsworth's Greece and Notes on Greek Myth, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “excerpted”.

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In Fuller’s words

“When I first [illegible] I thought it very beautiful but soon I feared [...] But of three hundred and seventy eight engravings with which the work is illustrated and whose superficial and merely picturesque merit gave it the charm that attracted me at first there is not one character. [...] In sight of the Oeta, says Wordsworth, well might [illegible] be excited to emulate the deeds of his ancestor.”
Greece: Pictorial, Descriptive, and Historical · Wordsworth's Greece and Notes on Greek Myth

When Fuller engaged with Christopher Wordsworth

No datable encounters with Wordsworth, Christopher have been catalogued yet.

This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.

Wordsworth in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

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Wordsworth's Greece and Notes on Greek Myth

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“When I first [illegible] I thought it very beautiful but soon I feared [...] But of three hundred and seventy eight engravings with which the work is illustrated and whose superficial and merely picturesque merit gave it the charm that attracted me at first there is not one character.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Wordsworth's Greece and Notes on Greek Myth." Houghton Library, Harvard University.