Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

WorkJames Montgomery

“Night (date unknown, c. 1820s)”

James Montgomery (1771–1854)

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Documented 1826

Notebooks

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence1record
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850
1826—

Reading Notebook 1825–1827

pp. 124–126
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“Night is the time for rest / How sweet, when labors close, / To gather round an aching breast / The curtain of repose … Night is the time for care; / Brooding on hours mispent … Like Brutus, midst his slumbering host / Summoned to die by Caesar's ghost!”

Fuller, Margaret. "Reading Notebook 1825–1827." Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Attributed 'Montgomery.' at the end (p. 126).