“When still in childish years fell in our way the “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty.”
WorkPercy Bysshe Shelley
“Hymn to Intellectual Beauty”
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)
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Documented 1845
Essays
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Confirmed reading
Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had this work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
- undatedHymn to Intellectual BeautyAttested
“When still in childish years, the "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty" fell in our way... read aloud the "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty," torn by chance from the leaf of a foreign magazine.”
Life Without and Life Within (essays) · When still in childish years, the "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty" fell in our way
Explicit first-person biographical reading episode: poem 'fell in our way' in childhood and was 'read aloud.'
- undatedQueen Mab; Hymn to Intellectual Beauty; Julian and Maddalo; Alastor; Prometheus UnboundAttested
“When still in childish years, the 'Hymn to Intellectual Beauty' fell in our way... The poems we read then are what every one still reads, the 'Julian and Maddalo'...”
Life Without and Life Within (essays) · 'When still in childish years'; later 'Two or three years passed... Christmas season'
First-person account 'When still in childish years... fell in our way... The poems we read then' is an explicit dated reading statement.
When Fuller engaged with this work
1845—
The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley . . .
“The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley . . .”quoted · read2 selected passages
“Take first what came to us first, and is in truth the Credo of the poet: HYMN TO INTELLECTUAL BEAUTY The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats, tho’ unseen, among us”
Fuller, Margaret. "The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley . . ." New-York Daily Tribune, 27 December 1845.