WorkWilliam Wordsworth

The Excursion

The Excursion (1814), Inferred

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Documented 1826–1846

Letters • Essays • Journals • Notebooks

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Confirmed reading

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.

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1837The ExcursionAttested
“At times I read the Bible at times Wordsworth I dwelt in the thoughtful solitudes of his Excursion I wandered like his white doe.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Oct 2 2d 1840; recalling 'the first winter of my suffering health'
Explicit 'At times I read the Bible at times Wordsworth... dwelt in... his Excursion'.

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence1record

III. Self-Directed1record

IV. Transcendentalist1record

V. New York

VI. Europe2records

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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1826—

Reading Notebook 1825–1827

pp. 81

excerpted · quoted · readSearch Digital Fuller (page unverified)

“I have seen / A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract / Of inland ground, applying to his ear / The consolations of a smooth lipped shell, / To which, in silence hushed, his very soul / Listened intensely … Even such a shell the universe itself_ / Is to the ear of faith … Devout above the meaning of your will." / Wordsworth._”

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

Inferred Attributed 'Wordsworth._' at end. The passage is from Book IV ('Despondency Corrected') of The Excursion (1814), beginning at line 1132. Separate entry from 'She Was a Phantom of Delight' as it is a different work.

Attributed 'Wordsworth._' at end.

1833—

Journal 1833–1834

p23

quoted · read

“The clouds were touched / and in their silent faces he did reach / Unutterable love. / Wordsworth”

Fuller, Margaret. "Journal 1833–1834." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (4); Box 5 (83).

Inferred Phrase ‘The clouds were touched / and in their silent faces he did reach / Unutterable love’ attributed to ‘Wordsworth’ by Fuller in her manuscript; identified as The Excursion, Book First (The Wanderer), lines 203–205. Fuller attributes the passage explicitly to Wordsworth and sets it as a verse epigraph on p. 23 alongside the Körner quotation. The title is marked Inferred because Fuller names only the author, not the poem.

Phrase ‘The clouds were touched / and in their silent faces he did reach / Unutterable love’ attributed to ‘Wordsworth’ by Fuller in her manuscript; identified as The Excursion, Book First (The Wanderer), lines 203–205. Fuller attributes the passage explicitly to Wordsworth and sets it as a verse epigraph on p. 23 alongside the Körner quotation.

1840—

Letter to Caroline Sturgis

p168

analyzed · read

“At times I read the Bible at times Wordsworth I dwelt in the thoughtful solitudes of his Excursion”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.

1846—

Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . II.

“Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . II.”

mentioned

“We passed one most delightful day in a visit to Langdale—the scene of the Excursion—and to Dungeon Gill Foree.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . II." New-York Daily Tribune, 29 September 1846. · 29 September 1846

1846—

Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . III.

“Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . III.”

mentioned

“The first day of which I wished to speak was passed in visiting Langdale, the scene of Wordsworth’s “Excursion.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . III." New-York Daily Tribune, 24 October 1846. · 24 October 1846