Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

WorkSamuel Taylor Coleridge

“A Soliloquy" [as titled by Fuller] (c. 1830s)”

"A Soliloquy" [as titled by Fuller] (c. 1830s) Inferred

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1798–1843)

InferredFuller names this poem 'A Soliloquy' and says she 'found [it] among the writings of Coleridge.' The poem is a response to Wordsworth's 'A Complaint' and serves as its philosophical counter.

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Documented 1846

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  • undatedA SoliloquyAttested

    “afterwards I found among the writings of Coleridge what may serve as a sufficient answer. A SOLILOQUY. Unchanged within to see all changed without.”

    Papers on Literature and Art

    First-person 'I found among the writings of Coleridge' continues the explicit personal reading narrative.

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe1record
✦. Memoirs (1852)
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1832
1836
1844
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Papers on Literature and Art

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“I found among the writings of Coleridge what may serve as a sufficient answer. A SOLILOQUY. Unchanged within to see all changed without / Is a blank lot and hard to bear, no doubt.”

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

Inferred Fuller names this poem 'A Soliloquy' and says she 'found [it] among the writings of Coleridge.' The poem is a response to Wordsworth's 'A Complaint' and serves as its philosophical counter.