WorkGeorge Gordon, Lord Byron
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (London: John Murray, 1812-1818) — Canto III (1816), stanza 92
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788–1824) · 1812–18
InferredFuller uses the phrase "City of the Soul" to describe Rome, saying it "does indeed designate her and her alone." The phrase is from Stanza LXXVIII of Byron's *Childe Harold's Pilgrimage*, Canto IV: "Oh Rome! my country! city of the soul!"
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Documented 1834–1848
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“Experience only gives me "Byron headache.”
Fuller, Margaret. "To Almira P. Barlow, 6 October 1834." In The Letters of Margaret Fuller, Vol. I: 1817–1838, edited by Robert N. Hudspeth, 209–210. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
Inferred Hudspeth identified the specific allusion to Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto 1, stanza 8, where Byron describes the restless malaise that became associated with his name.
“I dislike the comparison, as I always do illustrating so-called inanimate nature by man or any shape of animal life.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
Inferred Fuller quotes Byron's comparative imagery and explicitly attributes it to "Byron." Hudspeth identified the first allusion as Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto 3, stanza 92, where the phrase "light of a dark eye in woman" appears; the footnote notes that a second comparison Fuller mentions—"the cataract to a tiger's leap"—remains unidentified in Byron's published works.
“when Byron compares the light on Jura to that of the dark eye of woman”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.
Inferred Fuller names Byron explicitly and describes his comparison of the light of the moon on Jura to 'the dark eye of woman.' Hudspeth identified this is Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto 3, Stanza 92: 'The sky is changed!—and such a change!
“The expression 'City of the Soul' does indeed designate her and her alone.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. V. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.
Inferred Fuller uses the phrase "City of the Soul" to describe Rome, saying it "does indeed designate her and her alone." The phrase is from Stanza LXXVIII of Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IV: "Oh Rome! my country! city of the soul!"
“my heart swelled even to tears with the cry of the poet:"0, Rome, my country, city of the soul!”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. V. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.
Inferred Hudspeth identified: Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IV, stanza 78: 'Oh Rome! and control / In their shut breasts their petty misery.' (Byron, Poetical Works, p. 237.) Fuller quotes the opening line verbatim.
Hudspeth identified: Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IV, stanza 78: 'Oh Rome!
“O, Rome, my country, city of the soul!”
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.
Inferred Margaret Fuller references Lord Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage when invoking "O, Rome, my country, city of the soul!" as "the cry of the poet." This line, drawn from Canto IV of Byron's narrative poem, signals Fuller's engagement with the Romantic concept of a spiritual homeland and the powerful allure of historical sites.