Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

WorkWilliam Shakespeare

The First Part of King Henry the Sixth

The First Part of King Henry the Sixth (c. 1591–92; First Folio, 1623)

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) · c. 1591–92; First Folio, 1623

InferredFuller uses the phrase 'Adonis' gardens' to describe the autumn leaves that are swept by wind onto the amber stream — beautiful but dying, exchanged for shade (the underworld).

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Documented 1841

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

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist1record
V. New York
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850
1841—

Upon the Eve of Earthly Severance

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“Adonis' gardens for the realms of shade;”

Fuller, Margaret. "Upon the Eve of Earthly Severance." Boston Public Library Archives & Special Collections; MS Am. 1450; Box: 3, Folder: 130.

Inferred Fuller uses the phrase 'Adonis' gardens' to describe the autumn leaves that are swept by wind onto the amber stream — beautiful but dying, exchanged for shade (the underworld).