WorkAlfred Tennyson
Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892) · 1842
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Documented 1842
Letters
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 →
Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had this work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
“I have just been reading the new poems of Tennyson.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · August 1842
MERGED 2026-10-11: absorbed duplicate witness(es) re19 (Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (sections), Mem-2-07b, line 17957, letter Aug 1842; tier A; same passage) — counted once here. Explicit 'I have just been reading the new poems of Tennyson'.
“One of his themes has long been my favorite,—the last expedition of Ulysses,—and his, like mine, is the Ulysses of the Odyssey, with his deep romance of wisdom, and not the worldling of the Iliad.”
Fuller explicitly identifies and discusses Tennyson's "Ulysses" as a long-time favorite, analyzing its treatment of the Odyssey hero and contrasting him with the Iliad worldling.
“The true text is: "Mine own Telemachus / He does his work-I mine.”
Inferred Fuller quotes loosely from Tennyson's "Ulysses" (Poems, 1842): "He does his work—I mine" versus Tennyson's "He works his work, I mine," and adds "Mine own Telemachus." Hudspeth identified the source as the canonical lines beginning "Most blameless is he, centred in the sphere / Of common duties,"
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.