Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

WorkRobert Southey

“The Poet's Pilgrimage to Waterloo”

Robert Southey (1774–1843)

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Documented 1836

Notebooks

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. Transcendentalist1record
V. New York
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850
1836—

Notebook: Bouquet, 1836–1837

p5–p8
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“From Southey's poems. Beautiful description. We reached a green and sunny place, so fair / As well with long lost Eden might compare.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Notebook: Bouquet, 1836–1837." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (43); Box 6 (43).

Beautiful description.' and attributes it at the end to 'Poet's Pilgrimage.' The passage describes an idealized paradise-garden with cedars, cypress, olive, bay, rose of Sharon, violet, lotus, and birdsong.