WorkWalter Savage Landor
Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)
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Documented 1845
Essays
Selected engagements, in chronological order.
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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.
“I have also read with great delight Landor's Pentameron, rejoicing to find a book of his that is new to me.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 23d Novr 1844
'I have also read with great delight Landor's Pentameron' is an explicit first-person reading statement.
“It is easy and animated, and, though contrast of character, and sustained mental pictures of the speakers, to the extent that we find in Landor’s Pentameron, for instance, would add to our enjoyment, yet we are content in its use, merely as a free and various mode of expressing the writer’s own views.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Review." New-York Daily Tribune, 21 January 1845. · 21 January 1845
“Another book of Landor’s which ought to be republished here, as a boon to minds refined, or capable of refinement, is his Pentameron.”
“I have no fear about the girl. He might as well whistle to the moon on a frosty night, and expect as reasonably her descending. She is adamant; a bright sword now first scabbarded”
Fuller, Margaret. "Writers Little Known Among Us." New-York Daily Tribune, 28 March 1845.