Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

Nizami GanjaviInferred

Nizami Ganjavi is documented in Fuller’s letters (1830). One work is named, all in The Letters of Margaret Fuller, Vol. I: 1817-1838, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “mentioned”.

Engagement
Mentioned
Present in
Letters
Documented
1830
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 Nizami Ganjavi

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence1record
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
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.

Ganjavi in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1830—

The Letters of Margaret Fuller, Vol. I: 1817-1838

letter_0071.txt
mentioned
“as Leila said to Mignoun, in those beautiful Persic poems we have so often conned together in more studious hours.”

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

Inferred Leila and Mejnoun are the protagonists of the Persian romance traditionally attributed to Nizami Ganjavi; editor's footnote instead links the phrase to Mignon in Goethe's Wilhelm Meister, but Fuller's text explicitly says 'Persic poems'