WorkRobert Browning

Paracelsus

Robert Browning (1812–1889)

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Documented 1842–1846

Letters • Books • Essays

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist1record
V. New York
VI. Europe2records
✦. Memoirs (1852)
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1842—

Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“let me have Paracelsus and Ernest when you can.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.

1846—

Papers on Literature and Art

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“Such are Festus, Paracelsus, Coleridge's Remorse, Shelley's Cenci”
“Our first acquaintance with this subtle and radiant mind was through his "Paracelsus," of which we cannot now obtain a copy, and must write from a distant memory.”

Also reprinted in New-York Daily Tribune. Counted once, at its first appearance.

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

1846—

Browning’s Poems.

“Browning’s Poems.”
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“Paracelsus (sings)—“Over the sea our galleys went, With cleaving prows in order brave, To a speeding wind and a bounding wave, A gallant armament:”

Fuller, Margaret. "Browning’s Poems." New-York Daily Tribune, 1 April 1846. · 1 April 1846