WorkThomas Hood

The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies or Whims and Oddities or a collected volume

Thomas Hood (1799–1845) · 1827

InferredFuller describes an earlier reading experience at Hallowell, Maine — reading Hood's poems ('no books that I liked, except Hood's poems') every afternoon through a September–October season. The specific volume is not named. Hood's serious poetry in the mid-1820s–1830s was published in The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies (1827) and various collected editions.

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Documented 1840

Letters

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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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 William H. Channing(?)

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“I was staying at Hallowell, Maine, and could find no books that I liked, except Hood's poems.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.

Inferred Fuller describes an earlier reading experience at Hallowell, Maine — reading Hood's poems ('no books that I liked, except Hood's poems') every afternoon through a September–October season. The specific volume is not named. Hood's serious poetry in the mid-1820s–1830s was published in The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies (1827) and various collected editions.