WorkNathaniel Parker Willis

“A Portrait”

"A Portrait" (poem, c. 1835) Inferred

Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806–1867) · poem, c. 1835

InferredPoem signed 'CASSIUS,' the same pen name as M-014-R01 on the same printed page; same printing medium (cut and glued). Poem headed 'A PORTRAIT,' signed 'CASSIUS' at the foot, printed and glued into page 2 alongside the 'Red Jacket' poem and the 'Argentile and Curan' excerpt.

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Documented 1835

Manuscripts

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-Directed1record

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

1810

1820

1832

1836

1844

1846

1850

1835—

Poems, Others

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“She's beautiful! Her raven curls / Have broken hearts in envious girls— / And then they sleep in contrast so, / Like raven feathers upon snow ...”

Fuller, Margaret. "Poems, Others." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086.

Inferred Poem signed 'CASSIUS,' the same pen name as M-014-R01 on the same printed page; same printing medium (cut and glued). Poem headed 'A PORTRAIT,' signed 'CASSIUS' at the foot, printed and glued into page 2 alongside the 'Red Jacket' poem and the 'Argentile and Curan' excerpt.