WorkPercy Bysshe Shelley

Prince Athanase: A Fragment

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

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Documented 1850

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  • 1817Prince AthanaseDemonstrated

    “I have copied for you the passage I mentioned in Shelley, as applicable to your opinions... The lines are from Prince Athanase”

    Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · According to his wife, Shelley wrote "Prince Athanase" in December 1817. She published it for the first time in 1824.

    "I have copied for you the passage I mentioned in Shelley... from Prince Athanase" documents substantial verbatim copying of a specific passage.

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe1record
✦. Memoirs (1852)
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1832
1836
1844
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Letter to Amelia Greenwood

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“I have copied for you the passage I mentioned in Shelley, as applicable to your opinions with regard to those faint and shadowed reminiscences of a former state of being which haunt the troubled soul in this.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.