WorkRobert Southey
Thalaba the Destroyer (1801), Inferred
Robert Southey (1774–1843) · 1801
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Documented 1836–1846
Books • Notebooks • Manuscripts
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 →
“The Moon is bright, the sea is calm / The little boat rides safely [...] Thalaba.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Notebook: Bouquet, 1836–1837." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (43); Box 6 (43).
“I had thought it an unusually delicate thought for Southey "Let me no longer suffer hope in Heaven;”
Fuller, Margaret. "Starry Night Meditation." Boston Public Library Archives & Special Collections; MS Am. 1450; Box: 3, Folder: 129.
Inferred Fuller names Southey explicitly and quotes a line she attributes to him: 'Let me no longer suffer hope in Heaven.' The canonical text in Southey's Thalaba the Destroyer, Book XII, reads: 'Let me not longer suffer hope in heaven!' — spoken by Oneiza's voice from Heaven to Thalaba, urging him to complete his quest.
“as in "Thalaba," shows a faith in the benignity ... last stage of Thalaba's journey to the Domdaniel Caves”
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.