Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

FirdawsiInferred

Firdawsi is documented in Fuller’s letters (1840). One work is named, all in The Letters of Margaret Fuller, Vol. II: 1839-1841, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “mentioned”.

Engagement
Mentioned
Present in
Letters
Documented
1840
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 Firdawsi

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist1record
V. New York
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850

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

Firdawsi in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1840—

The Letters of Margaret Fuller, Vol. II: 1839-1841

letter_0252.txt, line 4777; note 1
mentioned
“So talks the soft spring gale of the Shah Nameh.”

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

Inferred Fuller’s words — “So talks the soft spring gale of the Shah Nameh.” — point to Shah Nameh, but she does not give the work’s full title or author here; the identification of the specific work is the editor’s.