WorkRichard Henry Dana, Sr.

“Lectures on Shakespeare”

Lectures on Shakespeare Inferred

InferredFuller names Dana but not the work — “Mr Very is infinitely inferior in accuracy of perception to Mr Dana, and has not so much insight, but he soars higher.” — so the identification as Lectures on Shakespeare is the editor’s and is not confirmed by this passage alone.

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Documented 1839

Letters

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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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1846

1850

1839—

The Letters of Margaret Fuller, Vol. II: 1839-1841

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“Mr Very is infinitely inferior in accuracy of perception to Mr Dana, and has not so much insight, but he soars higher.”

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

Inferred Fuller names Dana but not the work — “Mr Very is infinitely inferior in accuracy of perception to Mr Dana, and has not so much insight, but he soars higher.” — so the identification as “Lectures on Shakespeare” is the editor’s and is not confirmed by this passage alone.