WorkElizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)
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Documented 1845–1846
Books • Essays
Selected engagements, in chronological order.
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Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had this work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
“PERPLEXED MUSIC. "Experience, like a pale musician, holds A dulcimer of patience in his hand...”
Papers on Literature and Art
Extensive ~30-line verbatim quotation of Barrett's 'Perplexed Music'.
“EXPERIENCE, like a pale musician, holds A dulcimer of patience in his hand: Whence harmonies we cannot understand Of God’s will in his worlds the strain unfolds”
Fuller, Margaret. "Miss Barrett’s Poems." New-York Daily Tribune, 4 January 1845. · 4 January 1845
“PERPLEXED MUSIC.”
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. · p200
Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p200; page given is to the 1869 reprint.