WorkPercy Bysshe Shelley

Julian and Maddalo

Julian and Maddalo: A Conversation (written 1818; published in Posthumous Poems, 1824), Inferred

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Documented 1834–1846

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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.

undatedJulian and MaddaloAttested
“The poems we read then are what every one still reads, the "Julian and Maddalo," with its profound revelations of the inward life”
Life Without and Life Within (essays)
'The poems we read then' is an explicit first-person past-tense reading statement continuing the childhood reading episode.
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

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed1record

IV. Transcendentalist1record

V. New York1record

VI. Europe1record

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Fragmentary Reading Notes and Autobiographical Reflections

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“We learn in suffering what we teach in song_”

Fuller, Margaret. "Fragmentary Reading Notes and Autobiographical Reflections." Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Inferred Quoted phrase 'We learn in suffering what we teach in song' matches Julian and Maddalo (1818, published 1824). The exact phrase 'Most wretched men / Are cradled into poetry by wrong, / They learn in suffering what they teach in song' appears in Shelley's Julian and Maddalo (written 1818; published posthumously 1824 in Posthumous Poems).

1841—

Genesis of the Greek Gods

pp10–11

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“Was he a "much injured man / Cradled into poetry by wrong / ^Who^ To tell learnt in suffering what / he told in song”

Fuller, Margaret. "Genesis of the Greek Gods." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086.

Inferred Fuller places these lines in quotation marks and frames them as a possible description of the ideal Greek poet's character — a description she then rejects ('No indeed').

1845—

The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley . . .

“The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley . . .”

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“the “Julian and Maddalo” with its profound revelations of the inward life,—“Alastor,” the soul sweeping like a breeze through nature”

Fuller, Margaret. "The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley . . ." New-York Daily Tribune, 27 December 1845. · 27 December 1845

1846—

Papers on Literature and Art

p12

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“Were cradled into Poesy by Wrong, / And learnt in Suffering what they taught in Song." / "Knowledge and Truth and Virtue were his theme, / And lofty hopes of Liberty divine." Shelley.”

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

Inferred Two quotes attributed to Shelley: (1) 'Were cradled into Poesy by Wrong, / And learnt in Suffering what they taught in Song' — from Julian and Maddalo (pub.

(2) 'Knowledge and Truth and Virtue were his theme, / And lofty hopes of Liberty divine' — attributed 'Shelley' by Fuller, specific work unidentified.

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Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.

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Notes toward The Life of Goethe

p10

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“p10: '"Much injured men / are driven into Poetry by Wrong, / And learn in suffering / what they teach or say" / was to his.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Notes toward The Life of Goethe." Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Inferred Fuller attributes these lines to 'Byron' in her text ('as put in Byron'), but the lines are in fact from Shelley's 'Julian and Maddalo' (1818/1824), specifically the passage where Maddalo (the character based on Byron) says: 'Most wretched men / Are cradled into poetry by wrong, / They learn in suffering what they teach in song.' (lines 544–546). Fuller has slightly misquoted (changing 'cradled' to 'driven', 'song' to 'say'), and the attribution to 'Byron' is technically her own usage of the Byron-character Maddalo — not the historical Byron.