WorkWilliam Wordsworth

“London, 1802" (sonnet), in Poems, in Two Volumes”

William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

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Documented 1846

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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.

  • undatedLondon, 1802 (sonnet: "Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour")Demonstrated

    “The noble lines of Wordsworth, quoted by Mr. Griswold on his title-page... "Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour. Return to us again, And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.”

    Papers on Literature and Art

    Three-line verse passage quoted verbatim, a substantial excerpt (manually classified, missed by batch agent).

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe1record
✦. Memoirs (1852)
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1836
1844
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Papers on Literature and Art

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“Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour. / Return to us again, / And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.”

Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.

Fuller both quotes Wordsworth and adds: 'One should have climbed to as high a point as Wordsworth to be able to review Milton.' She attributes the poem to Wordsworth explicitly.