WorkWilliam Wordsworth
Character of the Happy Warrior' (1807), in Poems in Two Volumes Inferred
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) · 1807
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Documented 1836–1848
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“By the way, do you know his "Happy Warrior"? I find my insight of this sublime poet perpetually deepening.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 1836
Continues the reading discussion, explicit ongoing engagement with Wordsworth's poem.
“By the way, do you know his "Happy Warrior"? I find my insight of this sublime poet perpetually deepening.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
“Character of the happy Warrior, Wordsworth / Who is the happy Warrior? — Who is he / That every Man in arms should wish to be?”
Fuller, Margaret. "Notebook: Bouquet, 1836–1837." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (43); Box 6 (43).
“thus realizing Wordsworth's description of the wise man, who "sees what he foresaw.”
Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1844.
Inferred Fuller explicitly names Wordsworth and quotes 'sees what he foresaw' in quotation marks, applying it to the English gentleman who found and settled exactly the rural spot he had long envisioned.
“To keep in company with Pain, / And Fear, and Falsehood, miserable train," / "Turn that necessity to glorious gain," / "Transmute them and subdue.”
Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860.
Inferred This is a partial quotation from William Wordsworth's "Character of the Happy Warrior" (1807).
“the only good man, consequently the only good reformer, is he "Who basis good on good alone, and owes / To virtue every triumph that he knows.”
Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.
Inferred Lines 'Who basis good on good alone, and owes / To virtue every triumph that he knows' are attributed contextually to Wordsworth; possibly from '“Character of the Happy Warrior”' (1807). The phrase 'Who bases good on good alone' resembles lines from Wordsworth's '“Character of the Happy Warrior”'
Lines 'Who basis good on good alone, and owes / To virtue every triumph that he knows' are attributed contextually to Wordsworth; possibly from '“Character of the Happy Warrior”' (1807). Quoted without attribution.
“In himself possess his own desire Who comprehends his trust, and to the same Keeps faithful with a singleness of aim;”
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. · p254
Inferred Fuller quotes without naming the poem — “Who comprehends his trust, and to the same / Keeps faithful with a singleness of aim” — lines from Wordsworth’s “Character of the Happy Warrior.”
Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p254; page given is to the 1869 reprint.
“Mazzini arrived from his seventeen years' exile, "to see what he foresaw.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. V. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.
Inferred Hudspeth identified: Fuller quotes Wordsworth's 'Character of the Happy Warrior' (first published in Poems in Two Volumes, 1807).
The specific lines quoted are: '...and sees what he foresaw.' Hudspeth provides the full stanza context (The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, ed. Ernest de Selincourt and Helen Darbishire, 5 vols. [Oxford, 1940-49], 4:87): 'And, through the heat of conflict, keeps the law / In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw.'
“do you know his 'Happy Warrior'? I find my insight of this sublime poet perpetually deepening.”
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.