Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

WorkAlfred de Vigny

Poèmes antiques et modernes [Ancient and Modern Poems]

Alfred de Vigny (1797–1863) · 1826, expanded 1829, 1837

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Documented 1839

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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)1record
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Notes on Balzac, George Sand, De Vigny, and Béranger

p38–p39
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“Among his poésies La Fregate la Serieuse, Madame de Soubise, and Dolorida please me especially. The last has an elegiac sweetness and finish which are rare.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Notes on Balzac, George Sand, De Vigny, and Béranger." Houghton Library, Harvard University.

She also quotes what appears to be De Vigny's poem 'Le Cor' ('J'aime le son du cor le soir au fond des bois') and a second unidentified poem ('Qu'il est doux d'écouter les histoires').

Preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

1826—

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

p33
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“Among his poems, La Fregate, La Serieuse, Madame de Soubise, and Dolorida, please me especially... Some have a fine strain of natural melody...”

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.