WorkRichard Lovelace

“To Lucasta, Going to the Wars”

"To Lucasta, Going to the Wars" (in Lucasta: Epodes, Odes, Sonnets, Songs, &c

InferredFuller quotes the famous closing couplet of the poem: 'I could not love thee, dear, so much, / Loved I not Honour more.' Fuller's text reads 'honor' (American spelling) rather than 'Honour.' Fuller cites it to contrast with the Emerson verse — preferring the Lovelace statement of loyalty to honor over purely personal devotion.

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Documented 1841–1845

Letters • Books

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist1record

V. New York1record

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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1841—

Letter to William H. Channing

p213

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

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

Inferred Fuller quotes the famous closing couplet of the poem: 'I could not love thee, dear, so much, / Loved I not Honour more.' Fuller's text reads 'honor' (American spelling) rather than 'Honour.' Fuller cites it to contrast with the Emerson verse — preferring the Lovelace statement of loyalty to honor over purely personal devotion.

1845—

Woman in the Nineteenth Century

p55

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

Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.

Inferred Lines 'I could not love thee, dear, so much, / Loved I not honor more' are from Lovelace's 'To Lucasta, Going to the Wars' (1649). Famous closing couplet of Lovelace's 'To Lucasta, Going to the Wars' (Lucasta, 1649). Fuller quotes it without attribution as an example of the English ideal of love.

Fuller quotes it without attribution as an example of the English ideal of love.