WorkEdward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury

“An Ode upon a Question Moved, Whether Love Should Continue for Ever”

"An Ode upon a Question Moved, Whether Love Should Continue for Ever" (composed c. 1600-1640; published in Occasional Verses, 1665)

Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury (1583–1648) · composed c. 1600-1640; published in Occasional Verses, 1665

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Documented 1842

Letters

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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Letter to Frederic H. Hedge

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“Let then no doubt, Celinda, touch, / Much less your fairest mind invade / Were not our souls immortal made, / Our equal loves can make them such.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.