WorkNizami Ganjavi

Layla and Majnun (Persic poems)

Layla and Majnun (Persic poems) Inferred

InferredLeila and Mejnoun are the protagonists of the Persian romance traditionally attributed to Nizami Ganjavi; editor's footnote instead links the phrase to Mignon in Goethe's Wilhelm Meister, but Fuller's text explicitly says 'Persic poems'

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Documented 1830

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence1record

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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The Letters of Margaret Fuller, Vol. I: 1817-1838

letter_0071.txt

mentioned

“as Leila said to Mignoun, in those beautiful Persic poems we have so often conned together in more studious hours.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Inferred Leila and Mejnoun are the protagonists of the Persian romance traditionally attributed to Nizami Ganjavi; editor's footnote instead links the phrase to Mignon in Goethe's Wilhelm Meister, but Fuller's text explicitly says 'Persic poems'