WorkPercy Bysshe Shelley

Reality'

Reality' (Esdaile Notebook poem, composed c. 1810-11; first published as The Esdaile Notebook, 1964) Inferred

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) · Esdaile Notebook poem, composed c. 1810-11; first published as The Esdaile Notebook, 1964

InferredHudspeth identified this as from Shelley's poem "Reality" (Esdaile Poems no. 21),

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Documented 1849

Letters

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

Totals count documented engagements, once at the earliest witness. How we count →

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 →

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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Letter to Marcus and Rebecca Buffum Spring

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“truly hard is the travel to one who has but the 'brain-unencompassed by nerves of steel”

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

Inferred Hudspeth identified this as from Shelley's poem "Reality" (Esdaile Poems no. 21),

Fuller quotes "a brain unencompassed by nerves of steel" without attribution.