WorkSamuel Taylor Coleridge

“Dejection: An Ode”

"Dejection: An Ode" (first published in Morning Post, 4 October 1802; collected in Sibylline Leaves, 1817), Inferred

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1798–1843) · first published in Morning Post, 4 October 1802; collected in Sibylline Leaves, 1817

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Documented 1840–1846

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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. Transcendentalist1record

V. New York

VI. Europe1record

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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1840—

Letter to William H. Channing

p184

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“I cannot think about it or write about it except of / "a fair luminous cloud / Enveloping the earth”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.

Inferred Hudspeth identified the first quotation: 'The first quotation is from Coleridge's “Dejection: An Ode”.' The full passage in Coleridge (Stanza IV) reads: 'A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud / Enveloping the Earth—' Fuller quotes the last two lines of this image.

Title confirmed explicitly by Hudspeth.

1846—

Papers on Literature and Art

p157

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“Thus we cannot wonder that he, with all his vast mental resources and noble aims, should have been the bard elect to sing of Dejection, and that the pages of his prose works should be blistered by more painful records of personal and social experiences”

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