Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

WorkSamuel Taylor Coleridge

Christabel

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1798–1843)

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Documented 1846

Books • Essays

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this work is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

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Confirmed reading

Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had this work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.

  • undatedChristabelDemonstrated

    “In Christabel, the vivid, the silence, equally glided up in the mind. Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man, Down to a sunless sea.”

    Papers on Literature and Art

    21-line excerpt range with several lines of verse quoted from Christabel/Kubla Khan material.

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe3records
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850
1846—

Papers on Literature and Art

p96
analyzed · read2 selected passages
“meant by "Christabel" and " the Ancient Mariner”
“In Christabel, the Geraldine. Through his various mind / "Alph, the sacred river, ran / Through caverns measureless to man, / Down to a sunless sea.”

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

1846—

Belshazzar’s Feast . . .

“Belshazzar’s Feast . . .”
mentioned
“It is not a parallel with the attempt to finish Coleridge’s Christabel, for instance; a late folly of a very good sort of a man”

Fuller, Margaret. "Belshazzar’s Feast . . ." New-York Daily Tribune, 12 June 1846. · 12 June 1846

1846—

Dialogue, containing sundry Glosses on Poetic Texts

“Dialogue, containing sundry Glosses on Poetic Texts”
mentioned
“In him glided up in the silence, equally vivid, the Christabel, the Geraldine.”

Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. · p167

Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p167; page given is to the 1869 reprint.