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“Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey”

Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey (1798), Inferred

InferredFuller adapts a passage from Wordsworth's "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey," substituting the word "deceive" for Wordsworth's "betray" in the line about nature and the heart—a variant consistent with quotation from memory. Hudspeth identified the identification.

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Documented 1845

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I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York1record

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Letter to James Nathan

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“Nature never did deceive The heart that loved her”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. IV. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.

Inferred Fuller adapts a passage from Wordsworth's "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey," substituting the word "deceive" for Wordsworth's "betray" in the line about nature and the heart—a variant consistent with quotation from memory. Hudspeth identified the identification.

Hudspeth identified the identification.