WorkPercy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) · 1816
InferredFuller quotes the phrase "hold on in courage of soul" from Shelley's "On Death," published in 1816 with Alastor, slightly compressing the original wording when she incorporates it as a maxim.
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Documented 1836
Letters
Selected engagements, in chronological order.
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 →
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.
“Alastor," the soul sweeping like a breeze through nature; and some of the minor poems.”
Life Without and Life Within (essays)
Continuation of the same first-person 'we read then' enumeration of poems from the preceding childhood reading episode.
“A frail form, A phantom among men, companionless, As the last cloud of an expiring storm.”
Papers on Literature and Art
66-line excerpt range indicates a substantial quoted passage from Alastor.
“Vouchsafe then thy protection that I may "hold on in courage of soul.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
Inferred Fuller quotes the phrase "hold on in courage of soul" from Shelley's "On Death," published in 1816 with Alastor, slightly compressing the original wording when she incorporates it as a maxim.