WorkSamuel Taylor Coleridge

“The Improvisatore: or, 'John Anderson, My Jo, John”

"The Improvisatore: or, 'John Anderson, My Jo, John'" (published in Literary Remains, vol. 1

InferredFuller quotes Coleridge's "The Improvisatore: or, John Anderson, My Jo, John" from memory with slight variation ("crown to his cap and garnish to his dish" rather than Coleridge's full lines), embedding the quotation in a prose description of a deceased young wife. Hudspeth identified the source from *Literary Remains*.

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Documented 1835

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed1record

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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1836

1844

1846

1850

1835—

Letter to Frederic H. Hedge

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“She was 'crown to his cap and garnish to his dish.”

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

Inferred Fuller quotes Coleridge's "The Improvisatore: or, John Anderson, My Jo, John" from memory with slight variation ("crown to his cap and garnish to his dish" rather than Coleridge's full lines), embedding the quotation in a prose description of a deceased young wife. Hudspeth identified the source from Literary Remains.

Hudspeth identified the source from Literary Remains.