Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

Christoph Martin Wieland(1733–1813)

Christoph Martin Wieland is documented in Fuller’s published essays and manuscripts. One work is named, most often in Notes toward The Life of Goethe, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “mentioned”.

Engagement
Mentioned
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Essays · Manuscripts
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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

“p5: 'Wieland rejoices / as if it the smile of a Divinity / at the kindness with which / Goethe listened to Oberon.'; p12: 'Joke he had played off on / Wieland caused him / some uneasiness... Gods, heroes and Wieland'; p59: 'Klopstock, [illegible] / and Wieland to be read again / with the greatest care.”
Oberon: Ein romantisches Heldengedicht [Oberon: A Romantic Heroic Poem] · Notes toward The Life of Goethe

When Fuller engaged with Christoph Martin Wieland

No datable encounters with Wieland, Christoph Martin have been catalogued yet.

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

Wieland 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

p5, p12, p59
mentionedManuscript page
“p5: 'Wieland rejoices / as if it the smile of a Divinity / at the kindness with which / Goethe listened to Oberon.'; p12: 'Joke he had played off on / Wieland caused him / some uneasiness...”

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

Inferred Fuller mentions Wieland repeatedly as a literary/biographical figure and plans to read him again; no specific work is named in these notes though she mentions 'Oberon' in the context of Wieland listening to Goethe. Fuller mentions 'Oberon' specifically (Wieland's famous verse romance, 1780, one of his major works) in the context of Goethe listening to Wieland read from it.

n.d.—

Goethe.

“Goethe.”
mentioned
“real sovereigns of Weimar, Herder, Wieland, and the others?”

Fuller, Margaret. "Goethe." New-York Daily Tribune, .