WorkBenjamin 'Ben' Jonson

“Works”

Works (London, 1717) Inferred

Benjamin 'Ben' Jonson (1572–1637) · London, 1717

InferredFuller names "one of Ben Jonson with Underwoods," referring to Jonson's collection of lesser poems; as Hudspeth identified as Works (London, 1717).

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Documented 1839

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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1839—

Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“I have retained of your books a volume of Bacon, one of Plutarch, one of Ben Jonson with Underwoods, &c — you must ask me for them, if wanted, for I keep books forever.”

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

Inferred Fuller names "one of Ben Jonson with Underwoods," referring to Jonson's collection of lesser poems; as Hudspeth identified as “Works” (London, 1717).