WorkWilliam Shakespeare

Twelfth Night

Twelfth Night, or What You Will (written c. 1601–02; First Folio, 1623), Inferred

InferredQuoted phrase 'He never told his love' is from Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene 4 (Duke Orsino's song): 'She never told her love, But let concealment...' — adapted to masculine pronoun. Quoted within Thom's prose narrative, adapted from 'She never told her love' to 'He never told his love.' The allusion appears in a passage Fuller quotes from Thom. Fuller incorporates the opening line of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (Act I, Scene 1, line 1: 'If music be the food of love, play on') verbatim into her poem.

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Documented 1841–1846

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

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist1record

V. New York

VI. Europe1record

✦. Memoirs (1852)

1810

1820

1832

1836

1844

1846

1850

1841—

Melodia, a Mystical Poem

p1 / p9

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“If music be the food of love, play on,”

Fuller, Margaret. "Melodia, a Mystical Poem." Boston Public Library Archives & Special Collections; MS Am. 1450; Box: 3, Folder: 131.

Inferred Fuller incorporates the opening line of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (Act I, Scene 1, line 1: 'If music be the food of love, play on') verbatim into her poem.

The line appears twice in the manuscript: once in the first draft (page 1, transcription line 43) and again in the fair copy (page 9, transcription line 402).

1846—

Papers on Literature and Art

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“He never told his love”

Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.

Inferred Quoted phrase 'He never told his love' is from Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene 4 (Duke Orsino's song): 'She never told her love, But let concealment...' — adapted to masculine pronoun. Quoted within Thom's prose narrative, adapted from 'She never told her love' to 'He never told his love.' The allusion appears in a passage Fuller quotes from Thom.