1824—
Letter to Timothy Fuller
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“I wish you would have the goodness to send me my Milton's Paradise lost”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
WorkJohn Milton
Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost (1667), Book III, lines 351–361 (the immortal amarant) Inferred
John Milton (1608–1674) · 1667
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Documented 1824–1850
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When Fuller engaged with this work
1830—
Letter to James F. Clarke
p173quoted · read
“Blackness and ashes", Miltons apples; on such unsavory aliment we live to Knowledge”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.
1840—
Journal 1840
p58–p59analyzed · quoted · readManuscript page
“Even Milton makes Eve think Adam, at first, less beautiful than herself.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Journal 1840." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (85); Box 5 (85).
1841—
The Dial
“Goethe” · Vol. 2, No. 1, July 1841read
“Its Ithuriel temper pierces shams, creeds, covenants, and chases the phantoms which others embrace, till the lovers of the false Florimels hurl the true knight to the ground.”
Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860. · p28
Inferred Fuller's phrase "Ithuriel temper" alludes to the angel Ithuriel in Milton's Paradise Lost IV.788–810, who reveals Satan by touching him with a spear.
1842—
Letter to Elizabeth Hoar
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“Some natural tears I shed" to be sure at the first prospect of all this”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.
Inferred Fuller adapts a line from the final book of Milton's Paradise Lost, in which Adam and Eve leave Eden shedding "natural tears." Hudspeth's notes identify the allusion; Fuller substitutes "I shed" for Milton's "they dropped," applying the image to her own emotional state.
1845—
Letter to James Nathan
p73quoted · read2 selected passages
“Yet in that garden must be amaranths flowers "not born to die.”
Inferred The phrase "not born to die" is Fuller's paraphrase rather than verbatim quotation.
“but only the amaranth is worthy to be watered, the purple with our life-blood, the white with our holiest tears.”
Inferred Fuller's image of the amaranth as the sole flower worthy of watering 'with our life-blood' and 'with our holiest tears' echoes Milton's Paradise Lost, Book III, lines 351–359, where the 'Immortal Amarant' bloomed in Paradise before being removed to Heaven.
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. IV. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.
1845—
Woman in the Nineteenth Century
p71analyzed · quoted · read2 selected passages
“We are reminded of the majestic cadence of the line whose feet step in the just proportions of Humanity, "Daughter of God and Man, accomplished Eve!”
Inferred Quoted line 'Daughter of God and Man, accomplished Eve!' attributed to Milton's Paradise Lost. This line is from Milton's Paradise Lost Book IV, line 660. Fuller gives no attribution here but explicitly links it to Milton and Adam in §8 (line 10702-10712), where the same phrase recurs with attribution.
Quoted line 'Daughter of God and Man, accomplished Eve!' attributed to Milton's Paradise Lost. Fuller gives no attribution here but explicitly links it to Milton and Adam in §8 (line 10702-10712), where the same phrase recurs with attribution.
“I find the whole of what I want in this relation, in the two epithets by which Milton makes Adam address his wife.”
Daughter of God and man, accomplished Eve' and 'Daughter of God and man, immortal Eve' attributed to Milton; Adam addressing his wife.
Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.
1845—
Papers on Literature and Art
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“Like Milton, she sees the angelic hosts in real presence [...] she cannot, like Milton, marshal the angels so near the earth as to impart the presence other than by sympathy.”
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.
Inferred Title inferred as Paradise Lost because that work is the primary locus of Miltonic angelic imagery Fuller invokes;
1846—
New-York Daily Tribune
“The Poor Man”quoted · read2 selected passages
“the mind is its own place,”
Inferred This quotation from John Milton's Paradise Lost, Book I, line 254, is from Satan's speech: "The mind is its own place, and in it self / Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n." Fuller quotes only the first clause and uses it to support her argument that one's occupation does not constrain the mind.
“Severe in youthful beauty.”
Inferred This is a quotation from John Milton's Paradise Lost, Book IV, lines 844-845, describing the Cherub Zephon: "Severe in youthful beauty, added grace / Invincible." Fuller attributes this description to her Christ-figure.
Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860.
1847—
Letter to Marcus and Rebecca Spring
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“Natural tears I shed at parting/ but tried to dry them with the thought we had certainly done what was best under the circumstances.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. IV. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.
Inferred Hudspeth identified Fuller's phrase "Natural tears I shed at parting" as an adaptation of Milton's description of Adam and Eve leaving Eden in Paradise Lost, Book XII: "Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon." Fuller paraphrases the passage in first person singular and transforms Milton's consolation ("wiped them soon") into her own reflection ("tried to dry them with the thought...").
1850—
Letter to Richard F. Fuller?
p106read
“We cannot be sufficiently grateful for our mother,- so fair a blossom of the white amaranth; truly to us a mother in this, that we can venerate her piety.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.
Inferred Fuller describes her mother as "so fair a blossom of the white amaranth," invoking the immortal amaranth as Milton presents it in Paradise Lost III.351–361: an undying heavenly flower symbolizing incorruptible purity.
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Letter to unknown
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“That the "mind is its own place," was a dead phrase to me, till he cast light upon my mind.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.