1841—
Genesis of the Greek Gods
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“Turn a silver lining to the night.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Genesis of the Greek Gods." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086.
WorkJohn Milton
Comus: A Masque Presented at Ludlow Castle
Comus: A Masque Presented at Ludlow Castle (1634), Inferred
John Milton (1608–1674) · 1634
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Documented 1841–1845
Letters • Books • Manuscripts
Selected engagements, in chronological order.
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Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this work is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →
When Fuller engaged with this work
1842—
Letter to Elizabeth Hoar
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“Your letter was a little golden ket to a whole volume of thoughts and feelings”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.
Inferred Fuller paraphrases Milton's image of the "Golden Key" from Comus (lines 12–14), which opens "the Palace of Eternity," and applies it metaphorically to Elizabeth Hoar's letter. Hudspeth's notes identify the source. Fuller uses the image without naming the source work.
Hudspeth's notes identify the source.
1845—
Woman in the Nineteenth Century
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“art yet of that unpolluted nature which Milton saw when he dreamed of Comus and the Paradise.”
Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.