WorkSamuel Taylor Coleridge

Biographia Literaria

Biographia Literaria (1817), Inferred

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1798–1843) · 1817

InferredMargaret Fuller engages with Samuel Taylor Coleridge's *Biographia Literaria* (1817) by citing his metaphor of "taking an account of stock" to describe her own process of self-reflection. Fuller paraphrases Coleridge's observation that such an honest appraisal of one's intellectual or spiritual "riches" often leads to a revision of self-perception.

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Documented 1830

Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

Letters

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence1record

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe

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Letter to Almira P. Barlow

p172

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“Have any new philosophical works supplanted Combe and Coleridge?”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

Inferred Fuller pairs Coleridge with Combe as philosophical reading, and Hudspeth identified Fuller "knew the prose of Samuel Taylor Coleridge better than his poetry," with Biographia Literaria (1817) and Aids to Reflection (1825) being the most relevant prose works available by 1830.

Preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

1817—

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

p165

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“I had begun to 'take an account of stock,' as Coleridge calls it, and was forced to proceed.”

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 engages with Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Biographia Literaria (1817) by citing his metaphor of "taking an account of stock" to describe her own process of self-reflection. Fuller paraphrases Coleridge's observation that such an honest appraisal of one's intellectual or spiritual "riches" often leads to a revision of self-perception.