Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus)(c. 99–c. 55 BCE)

Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus) is documented in Fuller’s manuscripts. One work is named, all in Notes toward The Life of Goethe, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “mentioned”.

Engagement
Mentioned
Present in
Manuscripts
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 Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus)

No datable encounters with Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus) have been catalogued yet.

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

Carus) in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

Undated

Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.

n.d.—

Notes toward The Life of Goethe

p11
mentionedManuscript page
“p11: 'von Knebel (translator of / Lucretius and his Lebens / freund ??) accompanied / by the princes of Weimar”

Fuller, Margaret. "Notes toward The Life of Goethe." Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Inferred Fuller mentions 'von Knebel (translator of Lucretius)' — this identifies Knebel specifically as the German translator of Lucretius's De rerum natura. Fuller identifies Karl Ludwig von Knebel as the 'translator of Lucretius' — this clearly points to De rerum natura, which Knebel translated into German hexameters (Von der Natur der Dinge, Leipzig, 1821). The work is thus identified through Knebel's most famous translation.