WorkSamuel Taylor Coleridge

“On Poesy or Art", in Literary Remains”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1798–1843) · 1818 lecture

InferredFuller explicitly credits Coleridge's classification of the arts, subdividing poesy into Poetry, Music, Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, and the histrionic art, as as Hudspeth identified on Coleridge's 1818 lecture "On Poesy or Art."

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Documented 1840

Letters

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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.

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1836Literary RemainsAttested
“Coleridge's Literary Remains, and drank a great deal from Wordsworth.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 1836
MERGED 2026-10-11: absorbed duplicate witness(es) re624 (Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (sections), Mem-2-03 l.6923-6924; tier A; same passage) — counted once here. Same explicit list sentence: 'I have read... Coleridge's Literary Remains.'
1837Literary RemainsAttested
“As to reading I have read only two books, Coleridge's Literary remains and Eckermann's Conversations with Goethe, both very good!”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Boston 6th April 1837
Explicit 'I have read only two books, Coleridge's Literary remains and Eckermann's Conversations with Goethe.'
1837Literary RemainsAttested
“Some of your books I restore. The Literary remains I have ransacked pretty thoroughly.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 3oth May 1837.
Explicit 'The Literary remains I have ransacked pretty thoroughly.'

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist1record

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Letter to Sarah Helen Whitman

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“Poesy (following Coleridge's classification) into Poetry, Music, Painting, Sculpture, architecture and the histrionic art.”

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

Inferred Fuller explicitly credits Coleridge's classification of the arts, subdividing poesy into Poetry, Music, Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, and the histrionic art, as as Hudspeth identified on Coleridge's 1818 lecture "On Poesy or Art."