Author

August Wilhelm von Schlegel(1767–1845)

August Wilhelm von Schlegel is documented in Fuller’s letters, books, published essays, journals, and manuscripts (1834–1845). 3 distinct works are named, most often in Mr. Hudson’s Lecture on Hamlet., and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

Engagement: AnalyzedQuotedReadMentioned
Present in: Letters · Books · Essays · Journals · Manuscripts
Documented: 1834–1845

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 →

In Fuller’s words

“It has been justly remarked by Schlegel and other apprehensive critics, that, as all the world was in our Shakspeare, and he expressed the gift of the bard or seer with the tact of the man of the world, so there lies beneath very slight expressions of his thought a double meaning like that supposed in the Swedenborgian construction.”

Vorlesungen über dramatische Kunst und Literatur [Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature] · Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1840

When Fuller engaged with August Wilhelm von Schlegel

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed1record

IV. Transcendentalist2records

V. New York1record

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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

Schlegel in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1834—

Fragmentary Reading Notes and Autobiographical Reflections

readManuscript page

“Mrs Jameson inveighs against ridicule as if she had sat at the feet of A.W. Schlegel.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Fragmentary Reading Notes and Autobiographical Reflections." Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Inferred Schlegel' — referring to his influence on dramatic criticism. Fuller's own commentary suggests she has read Schlegel's lectures; no specific title named explicitly. Schlegel as the intellectual authority behind Jameson's critical stance against ridicule. The Vorlesungen über dramatische Kunst und Literatur (1809–11; English translation 1815) is Schlegel's most influential work and the one most likely in Fuller's mind

1840—

Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson

p115

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“It has been justly remarked by Schlegel and other apprehensive critics, that, as all the world was in our Shakspeare, and he expressed the gift of the bard or seer with the tact of the man of the world, so there lies beneath very slight expressions of his thought a double meaning like that supposed in the Swedenborgian construction.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.

Inferred Fuller invokes Schlegel as a critical authority on Shakespeare's layered meanings, citing his observation that Shakespeare's subtle expressions contain double meanings beneath the surface. as Hudspeth identified as A.W. Schlegel's Vorlesungen über dramatische Kunst und Literatur (1809–11), the influential lectures on Shakespeare and drama.

as Hudspeth identified as A.W.

1840—

Journal 1840

p21

analyzed · readManuscript page

“Balwer _text Athens! / What a work about Greece should be, redressing the old Schlegel idea of life studied through art.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Journal 1840." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (85); Box 5 (85).

Inferred Fuller refers to 'the old Schlegel idea of life studied through art' in discussing what a proper book on Greece should redress — this is a methodological critique of Schlegel's approach in his Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature (1809–1811).

1845—

Mr. Hudson’s Lecture on Hamlet.

“Mr. Hudson’s Lecture on Hamlet.”

mentioned2 selected passages

“Of Schlegel we do not think as highly as is comfortable with the received opinion.”

“The few sentences which Goethe has given are worth volumes of Schlegel.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Mr. Hudson’s Lecture on Hamlet." New-York Daily Tribune, 19 February 1845.

Undated

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

n.d.—

On R.H. Dana's Lecture

analyzed · readManuscript page

“he repeats things current since the Schlegels and fights with Dr Johnson.”

Fuller, Margaret. "On R.H. Dana's Lecture." Boston Public Library Archives & Special Collections; MS Am. 1450; Box: 2, Folder: 85.

Inferred Fuller references 'the Schlegels' as the established body of Romantic Shakespeare criticism that has superseded Johnson.

n.d.—

A Rhythmical Translation of Goethe's Tasso

“A Rhythmical Translation of Goethe's Tasso”

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“The following remarks from an essay of A. W. Schlegel are probably new to the reader: " Goethe has painted Tasso from a close study of his works.”

Fuller, Margaret. Art, Literature, and the Drama. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. New York: The Tribune Association, 1869. · p356