WorkSamuel Taylor Coleridge

Dejection

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1798–1843)

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Documented 1846

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  • undatedDejection: An OdeDemonstrated

    “no writer could excel him in depicting a single mood of mind, as Dejection, for instance. A grief without a pang, void, dark, and drear.”

    Papers on Literature and Art

    51-line excerpt range shows a sustained quotation of Coleridge's Dejection ode.

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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“Many of his smaller pieces are perfect in their way, indeed no writer could excel him in depicting a single mood of mind, as Dejection, for instance.”

Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. · p98

Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p98; page given is to the 1869 reprint.