WorkWilliam Shakespeare
The Tempest (c. 1610-11; First Folio 1623)
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) · c. 1610-11; First Folio 1623
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“it would be Elysium to have just performed some great and glorious deed, or to have just finished some beautiful work the Apollo Belvidere for instance or Shakespeare's Tempest”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Vol. I: 1817-1838. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
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“thou wouldst return to thy own little green isle of emotion, and be the loving and playful fay, rather than the delicate Ariel.”
Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860. · p351
Inferred Fuller explicitly names Ariel, the "airy spirit" from Shakespeare's The Tempest (c. 1611). She uses Ariel to figure intellectual detachment, which she contrasts with emotional attachment ("the loving and playful fay").