WorkWalter Savage Landor

The Pentameron and Pentalogia

Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) · London: Saunders and Otley, 1837

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  • 1844PentameronAttested

    “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.

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I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York2records
VI. Europe
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Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Your Pentameron I wish I could send now, but am not sure I can be ready. It has been a great pleasure to us to have it”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.

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Letter to Richard F. Fuller

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“I have also read with great delight Landor's Pentameron, rejoicing to find a book of his that is new to me.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.

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Mostly Extracts

pp54–62
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“Enter (as an [illegible]) into the mind and heart of your own creatures. Think of them being entirely, solely, never of style, never of self”

Fuller, Margaret. "Mostly Extracts." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (89); Box 5 (89).

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Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

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“I have employed some hours of the day, with great satisfaction, in copying the Poet's Dreams from the Pentameron of Landor. I do not often have time for such slow, pleasing labor.”

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.