Folklore & Mythology Figure
Documented in Fuller’s books, manuscripts
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
“And when we see the same propensity writing itself into Ganymede, Mahomet's song, the Bayadere, and Faust, telling all Goethe's religion in Mignon and Makana, all his wisdom in the Western-Eastern Divan, we respect it, accept, all but love it.”
Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860. · p17
“Ganymede to his Eagle, suggested by a work of Thorwaldsen's”
Fuller, Margaret. "Ganymede to His Eagle." Poem, July 1843. Boston Public Library Archives & Special Collections; MS Am. 1450; Box: 3, Folder: 134.
“Upon the rocky mountain stood the boy, / A goblet of pure water in his hand [...] I've filled the vase which our Olympian king / Upon my care for his sole use bestowed [...] Thy fellow bondsman in a royal cause [...] Which binds our dim fates to the throne of Jove.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Ganymede to His Eagle." Boston Public Library Archives & Special Collections; MS Am. 1450; Box: 3, Folder: 134.
Inferred Identification rationale not yet recorded.
“Here I thought of, or rather saw, what the Greek expresses under the form of Jove's darling, Ganymede, and the following stanzas took form.”
Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1844.
Inferred Fuller explicitly names Ganymede as the Greek mythological figure inspiring her poem 'Ganymede to His Eagle.' She identifies him as 'Jove's darling.' The myth appears first in Homer's Iliad and was also extensively in Pindar, Virgil, and other classical authors.
“GANYMEDE TO HIS EAGLE, / SUGGESTED BY A WORK OF THORWALDSEN'S.”
B-3-03 Chapter III