Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

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The Egyptian Maid

William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

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Documented 1846

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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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“The Egyptian Maid" is distinguished by a soft visionary style of painting, and a stealthy alluring movement, like the rippling of advancing waters, which, I do not remember elsewhere in Wordsworth's writings.”

Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. · p107

Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p107; page given is to the 1869 reprint.