Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

WorkRobert Browning

A Blot in the 'Scutcheon

Robert Browning (1812–1889)

Analyzed

Documented 1846

Books

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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 work is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe1record
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850
1846—

Browning's Poems

“Browning's Poems”
analyzed
“In "A Blot in the 'Scutcheon" we see a lily, storm-struck, half broken, but still a lily. In "Colombe's Birthday" a queenly rosebud, which expands into the full glowing rose before our eyes.”

Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. · p212

Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p212; page given is to the 1869 reprint.