Folklore & Mythology Figure
Documented in Fuller’s letters, books, manuscripts
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
“Henry, I adjure you, in the name of all the Genii, Muses, Pegasus, Apollo, Pollio, Apollyon, ("and must I mention"--) to send me something good for this journal before the 1st May.”
L-2 [Letter 255, 10 March 1840, To Frederic H. Hedge]
“Remember that I am not yet divine, / Long years of service to the fatal Nine / Are yet to make a Delphian vigor mine.”
Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1844.
Inferred Fuller invokes the nine Muses of Greek tradition as 'the fatal Nine' in her poem 'Ganymede to His Eagle'.The phrase 'the fatal Nine' is the traditional designation for the nine Muses of Greek mythology (Calliope, Clio, Erato, Euterpe, Melpomene, Polyhymnia, Terpsichore, Thalia, Urania), presided over by Apollo at Delphi.
“HOURS WITH THE MUSES: By John Critchley Prince. Second Edition. London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co. 1841.”
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.
Undated
Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.
“The Cicadae of gold, which she braided in her hair, signified that the natives of Attica sprang from the soil upon which they sang [...] Do you remember the story of the Cicadae as told by Plato?”
Fuller, Margaret. "Wordsworth's Greece and Notes on Greek Myth." Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Inferred Fuller asks 'Do you remember the story of the Cicadae as told by Plato?' This story — in which the Muses transformed humans into cicadas who forgot to eat and drink out of love of song — is from Plato's Phaedrus (259b–d). Fuller names Plato explicitly but not the dialogue.