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Sonnets and poems [later collected in Essays and Poems]

Jones Very (1813–1880) · Boston, 1839

InferredFuller names "Mr Very's sonnets and pieces" as leisure reading while resting during the day, referring to manuscript poems that Emerson had shared with her and that she also references in her Hamlet essay (Letter 207); these poems were later published in Essays and Poems (1839), edited by Emerson.

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Documented 1839

Letters

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist1record

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Letter to Caroline Sturgis

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“All the reading I did was occasionally when lying down in day time Mr Very's sonnets and pieces, Jane's letters, the Stirlings in two Blackwoods and little bits of Plato, Coleridge, Goethe and Ben Jonson.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.

Inferred Fuller names "Mr Very's sonnets and pieces" as leisure reading while resting during the day, referring to manuscript poems that Emerson had shared with her and that she also references in her Hamlet essay (Letter 207); these poems were later published in Essays and Poems (1839), edited by Emerson.