Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

WorkCharles Wesley

“Hosanna in the Highest" — in Hymns on the Lord's Supper”

"Hosanna in the Highest" — in Hymns on the Lord's Supper (1745) Inferred

Charles Wesley (1707–1788) · 1745

InferredFuller identifies the words "Hosanna in the highest" as being "in the Chorus Anthem" that her family sings. Hudspeth identified this hymn by Charles Wesley appears in *Hymns on the Lord's Supper* (1745, co-authored with John Wesley), and begins "Hosanna in the highest / To our exalted Savior."

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Documented 1820

Letters

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Confirmed reading

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.

  • undatedhymn ("Who but the Holy Ghost can make")Demonstrated

    “Who but the Holy Ghost can make / A genuine gospel minister, / A bishop bold to undertake / Of precious souls the awful care!”

    Papers on Literature and Art

    Full four-line hymn stanza quoted verbatim, a sustained passage.

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence1record
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
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Letter to Timothy Fuller

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“William Henry is sitting on the rug singing "Phosannur in de sidest." The little rogue alias student of roguery does this in imitation of us.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

Inferred Fuller identifies the words "Hosanna in the highest" as being "in the Chorus Anthem" that her family sings. Hudspeth identified this hymn by Charles Wesley appears in Hymns on the Lord's Supper (1745, co-authored with John Wesley), and begins "Hosanna in the highest / To our exalted Savior."