WorkWalter Savage Landor

Citation and Examination of William Shakespeare

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Documented 1840

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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.

undated(book, likely Imaginary Conversations - Shakespeare & Spenser)Attested
“I am disgusted as a whole with this book of Landor The Shakspeare and Spencer, which I have been Reading this morning”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
'which I have been Reading this morning' is an explicit, time-specific first-person reading statement.

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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Journal 1840

p27–p28

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“Landor / How better even rancorous or rabid he is_how how needlessly he uses this phrase 'A noisome mass of incredulity' / I am disgusted as a whole with this book of Landor / The Shakspeare and Spencer, which I have been Reading this morning_Mostly it is worthless or it is vulgar yet here & here is a passage struck out which reminds of the bland glories of Pericles & Aspasia.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Journal 1840." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (85); Box 5 (85).

Fuller refers explicitly to 'The Shakspeare and Spencer' — this is Landor's Citation and Examination of William Shakespeare, Euseby Treen, Joseph Carnaby and Silas Gough … to which is added A Conference of Master Edmund Spenser … (1834, Saunders and Otley). The full title includes both Shakespeare and Spenser, matching Fuller's shorthand 'Shakspeare and Spencer.' She quotes a phrase 'A noisome mass of incredulity' from the text, and says she is 'Reading this morning,'