The Life of Friedrich Schiller: Comprehending an Examination of His Works (London: Taylor and Hessey, 1825)
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) · London: Taylor and Hessey, 1825
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Documented 1834–1846
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1834—
Letter to Frederic H. Hedge
p215
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“begin to understand the meaning of certain critiques in your article on Schiller”
Fuller, Margaret. "To Frederic H. Hedge, 26 December 1834." In The Letters of Margaret Fuller, Vol. I: 1817–1838, edited by Robert N. Hudspeth, 215–217. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
InferredCarlyle's Life of Friedrich Schiller is the subject of Hedge's review article, which Fuller engages with through the critical discourse rather than through direct reading of Carlyle's work itself.
1837—
Letter to Caroline Sturgis
p297
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“Such books as Carlyle's life of Schiller, or Mrs Jameson's Visits and Sketches you know of course.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
1846—
New-York Daily Tribune
“Philip Van Artevelde” · 1845
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“Filippo has been so ably depicted in a work now well known, 'Carlyle's Life of Schiller,' that we need not dwell upon 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. · p134
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“Schiller is magnificent in his expansion, Alfieri is overpowering in his condensed energy; The first inspires us with greater admiration the last with greater awe.”
InferredThe section on pp. 25–32 discusses Schiller, Kant, Fichte, Watts's Logick, Leibniz, and Alfieri in terms and with phrasing that closely parallel Carlyle's Life of Schiller (1825), including the comparison 'Schiller is magnificent in his expansion, Alfieri is overpowering in his condensed energy.' This comparison appears in Carlyle's biography.
The section appears to be Fuller's notes from or partial transcription of Carlyle's text. The section on pp. 25–32 is not attributed within the manuscript, but the content — a sustained comparative analysis of Schiller and Kant, discussing the Aesthetic Education letters, Fichte's famous classroom quip ('Tomorrow, gentlemen, I shall create God'), Watts's Logick, Leibniz, and the Schiller/Alfieri comparison — parallels Thomas Carlyle's The Life of Friedrich Schiller (first serialized in The London Magazine, 1823–24; published as a book by Taylor and Hessey, London, 1825).