WorkFriedrich Schiller

“Der Ring des Polykrates”

"Der Ring des Polykrates" (ballad, first published in Musen-Almanach, 1798) Inferred

Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) · ballad, first published in Musen-Almanach, 1798

InferredFuller alludes to 'Polycrates cast forth his ring' — Hudspeth identified this as Schiller's ballad 'Der Ring des Polykrates' (1797): ' The allusion is to the story of Polycrates of Samos who threw his ring into the sea to temper his fortune.

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Documented 1840

Letters

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist1record

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Letter to William H. Channing(?)

p179

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“a remembrance of man's limitations seems to call on Polycrates to cast forth his ring”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.

Inferred Fuller alludes to 'Polycrates cast forth his ring' — Hudspeth identified this as Schiller's ballad 'Der Ring des Polykrates' (1797): ' The allusion is to the story of Polycrates of Samos who threw his ring into the sea to temper his fortune.