WorkWilliam Wordsworth

“To a Skylark" ("Ethereal minstrel! pilgrim of the sky!"), in Poetical Works”

"To a Skylark" ("Ethereal minstrel! pilgrim of the sky!"), in Poetical Works (various editions; first collected 1807 version differs; standard text in Poems, 1815 and after), Inferred

William Wordsworth (1770–1850) · various editions; first collected 1807 version differs; standard text in Poems, 1815 and after

InferredFuller quotes exactly from the poem and attributes the sentiment to the fisherman father on the rock — he embodies the values Wordsworth's skylark represents.

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Documented 1841

Letters

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this work is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

When Fuller engaged with this work

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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“Surely the "kindred points of Heaven and Home" were known in his breast, whatever guise they might assume.”

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

Inferred Fuller quotes exactly from the poem and attributes the sentiment to the fisherman father on the rock — he embodies the values Wordsworth's skylark represents.