Author

Aeschylus(c. 525–c. 456 BCE)

Aeschylus is documented in Fuller’s published essays (1846). One work is named, all in Philharmonic Concert., and the most intensive engagement recorded is “mentioned”.

Engagement
Mentioned
Present in
Essays
Documented
1846

Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

Totals count documented engagements, once at the earliest witness. How we count →

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

When Fuller engaged with Aeschylus

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe1record
✦. Memoirs (1852)1record
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850

This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.

Aeschylus in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.

1846—

Philharmonic Concert.

“Philharmonic Concert.”
mentioned
“who would like to drop suddenly from the Prometheus of Æschylus to–Stanzas on a broken Ring, by Alaric A. Watts?!”

Fuller, Margaret. "Philharmonic Concert." New-York Daily Tribune, 20 January 1846. · 20 January 1846

Preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

Passages surviving only in the posthumous Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, compiled by Emerson, Channing, and Clarke.

1852—

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

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“Margaret was struck with the singular fineness of his perceptions...”

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 While the specific work by Aeschylus is not named, Margaret Fuller engages with the ancient Greek tragedian through Ralph Waldo Emerson's recollection of her keen perceptions and enthusiastic reception of his legacy, alongside other literary giants.