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“The Fountain" in Lyrical Ballads, with Other Poems”

"The Fountain" in Lyrical Ballads, with Other Poems (1800) Inferred

InferredFuller quotes "tongue affectionate and true" in quotation marks, indicating an external source that comes from Wordsworth's "The Fountain" (in Lyrical Ballads, 1800): "We talked with open heart, and tongue / Affectionate and true." Fuller's broader phrasing—"to speak with open heart and 'tongue affectionate and true'"—mirrors the Wordsworth context of intimate friendship, and the quotation marks signal she is citing a recognized source, though she provides no attribution.

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Documented 1842

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I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist1record

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Letter to William H. Channing(?)

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“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”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.

Inferred Fuller quotes "tongue affectionate and true" in quotation marks, indicating an external source that comes from Wordsworth's "The Fountain" (in Lyrical Ballads, 1800): "We talked with open heart, and tongue / Affectionate and true." Fuller's broader phrasing—"to speak with open heart and 'tongue affectionate and true'"—mirrors the Wordsworth context of intimate friendship, and the quotation marks signal she is citing a recognized source, though she provides no attribution.