WorkSir William Davenant

“Gondibert: An Heroic Poem”

Gondibert: An Heroic Poem (1651), Book II, Canto VI ('Death of Astragon')

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Documented 1836

Journals

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this work is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

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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1836—

Journal December 1836

p42–43

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“Davenant. / Doth it our reason's mutinies appease / To say, the potter may his own clay mould / To every use, or in what shape he please, / at first not counselled, nor at last controlled.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Journal December 1836." Houghton Library, Harvard University; MS Am 1086; Box 3.