WorkWilliam Wordsworth
Lyrical Ballads (1798) and/or The Prelude (written c. 1799?1805) Inferred
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) · 1798
InferredFuller explicitly names 'the Wordsworthian creed': the principle that ordinary daily experience contains sufficient wonder and meaning without resort to the supernatural.
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Documented 1843
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“Nothing is truer than the Wordsworthian creed, on which Carlyle lays such stress, that we need only look on the miracle of every day, to sate ourselves with thought and admiration every day.”
Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1844.
Inferred Fuller explicitly names 'the Wordsworthian creed': the principle that ordinary daily experience contains sufficient wonder and meaning without resort to the supernatural.
“To speak with open heart and "tongue affectionate and true," — to enjoy real repose and the consciousness of a thorough mutual understanding in the presence of friends when we do meet, is what is needed.”
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.
Inferred In her journal, Margaret Fuller engages with William Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads (1800), specifically the poem "The Fountain." Fuller draws upon the poem's expression of intimate friendship and open communication, quoting the line, "tongue affectionate and true," to articulate her own thoughts on genuine connection and understanding among friends.