WorkThomas Hood
Poems (various collections, 1827–1840)
Thomas Hood (1799–1845) · various collections, 1827–1840
Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)
Selected engagements, in chronological order.
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 →
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.
“I was staying at Hallowell, Maine, and could find no books that I liked, except Hood's poems.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · It was a beautiful time when I first read these poems... I have never again seen the Kennebec
Explicit 'It was a beautiful time when I first read these poems' with dated recollection.
“I felt singular pleasure in seeing you quote Hood's lines on "Melancholy." I thought nobody knew and loved his serious poems except myself, and two or three others, to whom I imparted them.”
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.