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Lucasta: Epodes, Odes, Sonnets, Songs, &c

Lucasta: Epodes, Odes, Sonnets, Songs, &c. (1649) Inferred

InferredIn her private writings, Margaret Fuller engages with Richard Lovelace's collection *Lucasta: Epodes, Odes, Sonnets, Songs, &c.* (1649), citing the renowned closing lines from his poem "To Lucasta, Going to the Wars." Fuller adapts Lovelace's declaration that she loves her companion "so much, Loved I not honor more," demonstrating her value for honor as a primary principle, even above personal affection, through this well-known poetic quotation.

Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe

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Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

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“I could not love thee, sweet, so much, Loved I not honor more.”

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

Inferred In her private writings, Margaret Fuller engages with Richard Lovelace's collection Lucasta: Epodes, Odes, Sonnets, Songs, &c. (1649), citing the renowned closing lines from his poem "To Lucasta, Going to the Wars." Fuller adapts Lovelace's declaration that she loves her companion "so much, Loved I not honor more," demonstrating her value for honor as a primary principle, even above personal affection, through this well-known poetic quotation.