Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

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They Speak o' Wyles

William Thom (1798–1848)

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Documented 1846

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe1record
✦. Memoirs (1852)
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1836
1844
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Poets of the People

“Poets of the People”
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“THEY SPEAK O' WYLES. Air " Gin a bodie meet a bodie." They speak o' wyles in woman's smiles, An' ruin in her e'e — I ken they bring a pang at whiles That's unco sair to dree;”

Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. · p183

Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p183; page given is to the 1869 reprint.