WorkRobert Southey
Madoc (1805), Inferred
Robert Southey (1774–1843) · 1805
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Documented 1836–1846
Books • Notebooks
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 →
“How beautiful, beneath the bright blue sky, / The billows heave!”
Fuller, Margaret. "Notebook: Bouquet, 1836–1837." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (43); Box 6 (43).
“Perhaps there she will meet with some young descendants of Madoc, to be her friends”
Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1844.
Inferred Fuller alludes to the legend of Madoc (Madog), the Welsh prince said to have discovered America in the 12th century, whose supposed Welsh-Indian descendants were a popular legend on the American frontier..
“In " Thalaba" and "Joan of Arc," he had illustrated the power of faith; in " Madoc" contrasted religion under a pure and simple form with the hydra ugliness of superstition.”
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. · p97
Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p97; page given is to the 1869 reprint.