WorkJames Abraham Hillhouse

“Hadad: A Dramatic Poem”

Hadad: A Dramatic Poem (New York: George P. Scott, 1825)

James Abraham Hillhouse (1789–1841) · New York: George P. Scott, 1825

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Documented 1825–1846

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    “We would here pay a tribute to our countryman Hillhouse, whose Hadad, read at a very early age, we remember with much delight.”

    Life Without and Life Within (essays) · whose Hadad, read at a very early age, we remember with much delight

    MERGED 2026-10-11: absorbed duplicate witness(es) re291 (B-1 Life Without and Life Within (essays), B-1-14; tier A; same passage) — counted once here. 'Hillhouse, whose Hadad, read at a very early age, we remember with much delight' is an explicit self-reported reading episode tied to a life period.

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence1record
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe1record
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Reading Notebook 1825–1827

p. 66
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“Hadads soliloquy in view of Jerusalem — Hillhouse — / "'Tis so; — the hoary Harper sings aright / How beautiful is Zion!”

Fuller, Margaret. "Reading Notebook 1825–1827." Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Explicitly attributed 'Hadads soliloquy in view of Jerusalem — Hillhouse.' James Abraham Hillhouse's “Hadad: A Dramatic Poem” was published in 1825 (New York: G.

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New-York Daily Tribune

“Philip Van Artevelde” · 1845
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“We would here pay a tribute to our countryman Hillhouse, whose Hadad, read at a very early age, we remember with much delight.”

Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860. · p135