WorkGeorge Gordon, Lord Byron

Don Juan

Don Juan (1819–1824), Inferred

George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788–1824) · 1819–1824

InferredFuller explicitly attributes lines to Byron; Hudspeth's notes confirm they are from Don Juan, Canto 11, stanza 60, discussing the tradition that Keats died from the virulence of Lockhart's Blackwood's review.

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Documented 1825–1849

Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

Letters • Notebooks

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence2records

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe1record

✦. Memoirs (1852)1record

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1825—

Reading Notebook 1825–1827

pp. 11, 13, 72, 138, 142

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p.11

“In such society — / With much to excite, there's little to exalt; / Nothing that speaks to all men and all times … The Blues, that tender tribe, who sigh on sonnets / And with the pages of the last Review / Line the interior of their heads or bonnets … That prodigy, Miss Araminta Smith, / Who at sixteen translated "Hercules Furens”

Fuller, Margaret. "Reading Notebook 1825–1827." Houghton Library, Harvard University.

All attributed to Byron and consolidated here.

1829—

Letter to George T. Davis

p155

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“I am glad you think about Aurora Raby. Do Mr Norton and the Men of Edinburgh say he knew nothing, saw nothing in the female character but childish vanity or infatuate tenderness?”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.

Hudspeth identified Aurora Raby is a character in Byron's Don Juan (Cantos XV–XVI).

1849—

Letter to Emelyn Story

p188

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“I always thought with Byron 'Strange that the mind, that very fiery particle, could let itself be snuffed out by an article.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. V. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.

Inferred Fuller explicitly attributes lines to Byron; Hudspeth's notes confirm they are from Don Juan, Canto 11, stanza 60, discussing the tradition that Keats died from the virulence of Lockhart's Blackwood's review.

Preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

1819—

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

p30

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“The effect produced on the mind is nowise that described by Byron: — " Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away," &c.”

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.