WorkRobert Southey
The Curse of Kehama (1810) Inferred
Robert Southey (1774–1843) · 1810
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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 →
“The ship of heaven! / The ship of heaven, instinct with thought, displayed / Its living sail and glides along the sky [...] Kehama.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Notebook: Bouquet, 1836–1837." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (43); Box 6 (43).
Fuller excerpts multiple substantial passages from Southey's Hindu epic, all attributed 'Kehama.' at the end of each passage.
“I was reminded of Southey's Kehama”
Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.
Inferred Named explicitly as 'Southey's Kehama' — Robert Southey's epic poem The Curse of Kehama (1810), which features a powerful father-daughter relationship (Ladurlad and Kailyal).
“in the "Curse of Kehama," the sea-palace of Baly, "The Glen-" ... extract in a note to the "Curse of Kehama”
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.
“As specimens of his best manner, I would mention the last stage of Thalaba's journey to the Domdaniel Caves, and, in the " Curse of Kehama," the sea-palace of Baly, " The Glendoveer," and " The Ship of Heaven.”
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. · p95
Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p95; page given is to the 1869 reprint.