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Pindar is documented in Fuller’s letters and books (1844). 2 distinct works are named, most often in New-York Daily Tribune, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “read”.
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 →
“They did not see that Pindar's odes might be very well arranged for their own purpose, and yet not bear translating into the methods of Mr. Locke.”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“They did not see that Pindar's odes might be very well arranged for their own purpose, and yet not bear translating into the methods of Mr. Locke.”
Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860.
Inferred The title is inferred to be the Epinician Odes or the Odes collectively, based on the context.
Undated
Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.
“a reputation, the means of entering the Olympic game, where Pindar may perchance be encountered?”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.
Hudspeth's notes establish that Fuller, educated in classical languages, would have read Pindar's Olympian, Pythian, Nemean, and Isthmian odes in the original Greek.