WorkJohn Donne

“The Ecstasy”

"The Ecstasy" (c. 1601, pub. 1633) Inferred

John Donne (1572–1631) · c. 1601, pub. 1633

InferredReference to 'abler soul' born from meeting of two souls — this phrase appears in Donne's poem 'The Ecstasy'. Fuller explicitly names 'Donne' and the phrase 'abler soul' from 'The Ecstasy': 'this dialogue of one, / So, betwixt us both we grow an abler soul.'

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Woman in the Nineteenth Century

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“The meeting of two such souls Donne describes as giving birth to an "abler soul.”

Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.

Inferred Reference to 'abler soul' born from meeting of two souls — this phrase appears in Donne's poem 'The Ecstasy'. Fuller explicitly names 'Donne' and the phrase 'abler soul' from 'The Ecstasy': 'this dialogue of one, / So, betwixt us both we grow an abler soul.'