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Myrrha

Myrrha [Mirra] (composed 1784-86; published in the Paris collected edition 1787-89)

Vittorio Alfieri (1749–1803) · composed 1784-86; published in the Paris collected edition 1787-89

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Documented 1846

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe1record

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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New-York Daily Tribune

“Philip Van Artevelde” · 1845

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“Myrrha is, however, the highest exertion of his genius. [...] The agonizing rapidity with which her misery 'va camminando al fine'! No! never was higher tragic power exhibited”

Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860. · p132