WorkPercy Bysshe Shelley

On Death

On Death (composed c. 1820; first pub. in Posthumous Poems

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

InferredHudspeth identified the source as Shelley's "On Death," first published posthumously in Posthumous Poems, with the opening lines "O man!

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Documented 1843

Letters

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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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
1843—

Letter to Anna Barker Ward

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“presently I return to 'Hold on in courage of soul' &c &c”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.

Inferred Hudspeth identified the source as Shelley's "On Death," first published posthumously in Posthumous Poems, with the opening lines "O man!