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“Sonnet: 'Lift not the painted veil which those who live”

Sonnet: 'Lift not the painted veil which those who live' (composed c. 1818; published in Posthumous Poems, 1824)

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) · composed c. 1818; published in Posthumous Poems, 1824

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Documented 1850

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 William H. Channing

p70

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“For that lost heart was tender.”

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

Hudspeth identified the source as Shelley's sonnet "Lift not the painted veil which those who live / Call Life," quoting the complete poem.