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She was a Phantom of delight

She Was a Phantom of Delight (1807), Inferred

InferredThe poem is copied without attribution on p. 75, but the lines are the first two stanzas of Wordsworth's 'She Was a Phantom of Delight' (first published in Poems in Two Volumes, London: Longman, 1807). The characteristic diction and imagery are unmistakable.

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Documented 1826

Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence1record

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe

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Reading Notebook 1825–1827

p. 75

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“She was a Phantom of Delight / When first she gleamed upon my sight.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Reading Notebook 1825–1827." Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Inferred The poem is copied without attribution on p. 75, but the lines are the first two stanzas of Wordsworth's 'She Was a Phantom of Delight' (first published in Poems in Two Volumes, London: Longman, 1807). The characteristic diction and imagery are unmistakable.

The poem is copied without attribution on p. 75, but the lines are the first two stanzas of Wordsworth's 'She Was a Phantom of Delight' (first published in Poems in Two Volumes, London: Longman, 1807).

Preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

1852—

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

p32

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“not too bright and good for human nature's daily "food.”

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 This deliberate allusion confirms the editors' identification of Wordsworth's poem.