WorkThomas Hood

“Autumn”

Thomas Hood (1799–1845)

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Documented 1826

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Confirmed reading

Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had this work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.

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  • 1830Ode to AutumnAttested

    “Do you like, also, the ode to Autumn, and — 'Sigh on, sad heart, for love's eclipse'?”

    Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli · 'It was a beautiful time when I first read these poems. I was staying in Hallowell, Maine'

    Documented date evidence contains explicit statement 'when I first read these poems'.

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence1record
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850
1826—

Reading Notebook 1825–1827

p. 64
excerpted · quoted · readSearch Digital Fuller (page unverified)
“Autumn by Mr T. Hood': 'The autumn is old / The sear leaves are flying; / He hath gathered up gold / And now he is dying / Old age, begin sighing!”

The same sentence also names "I Remember, I Remember". Counted as one engagement.

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

Two poems by Thomas Hood copied on p. 64, both attributed 'Mr T.