“Up with me, up with me, into the clouds,'" etc.”
WorkWilliam Wordsworth
Poems
Poems (various editions); (1836–7 collected edition) or Poems, Chiefly of Early and Late Years (1842), Inferred
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) · London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807
InferredPhrase 'the child was father of the man' fingerprints Wordsworth's poem 'My Heart Leaps Up' (composed March 26, 1802; published in Poems, 1807). The phrase 'the child was father of the man' is Wordsworth's famous line from 'My Heart Leaps Up' (1802), also used as epigraph to the Immortality Ode (1807). The exact wording is 'The Child is father of the Man.' Fuller deploys it without attribution in her prose,
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Documented 1846
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- undatedpoem beginning A youth to whom was givenDemonstrated
“I have often thought, in relation to him, of Wordsworth's description of A youth to whom was given So much of Earth, so much of Heaven.”
Papers on Literature and Art
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When Fuller engaged with this work
1846—
Papers on Literature and Art
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“the divine spirit teaches better, shows that the child was father of the man, and that which we were before has prepared us to be what we now are.”
Inferred Phrase 'the child was father of the man' fingerprints Wordsworth's poem 'My Heart Leaps Up' (composed March 26, 1802; published in Poems, 1807). The phrase 'the child was father of the man' is Wordsworth's famous line from 'My Heart Leaps Up' (1802), also used as epigraph to the Immortality Ode (1807). The exact wording is 'The Child is father of the Man.' Fuller deploys it without attribution in her prose,
The exact wording is 'The Child is father of the Man.' Fuller deploys it without attribution in her prose,
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.
Preserved in the Memoirs (1852)
1836—
Recollections of Richard F. Fuller
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“Wordsworth, made precious by her marks of emphatic approbation. These books I now have.”
Fuller, Richard Frederick. Recollections of Richard F. Fuller. Boston: privately printed, 1936.
Inferred Richard Fuller names Wordsworth as one of the books Margaret placed in his hands 'as tenant-in-common,' describing it as 'made precious by her marks of emphatic approbation.' T