Author
Wolfgang Menzel is documented in Fuller’s books, published essays, and manuscripts (1834–1845). 2 distinct works are named, most often in The Dial, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.
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 →
“MENZEL'S view of Goethe is that of a Philistine, in the least opprobrious sense of the term. [...] Much truth has been spoken of him in detail, some by Menzel, but in so superficial a spirit, and with so narrow a view of its bearings, as to have all the effect of falsehood.”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“Die Deutsche Literatur" by Wolfgar Menzel.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Fragmentary Reading Notes and Autobiographical Reflections." Houghton Library, Harvard University.
“MENZEL'S view of Goethe is that of a Philistine, in the least opprobrious sense of the term.”
Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860. · p13-15
“Menzel is right so far as this, that the Jewish elements have pervaded our literature to a greater extent than is in their present state desirable.”
Fuller, Margaret. "The Modern Jews." New-York Daily Tribune, 21 April 1845. · 21 April 1845