WorkTorquato Tasso

Tasso

Torquato Tasso (1544–1595)

Mentioned

Documented 1846

Books

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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Confirmed reading

Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had this work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.

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  • 1834TassoDemonstrated

    “My trans of Tasso cannot be published a present if ever”

    Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton loth March 1834

    Engagement_type Translated automatically qualifies (her manuscript translation of Tasso).

  • 1834TassoDemonstrated

    “Please send my trans of Tasso if you have it.”

    Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton gth Novr 1834

    Engagement_type Translated automatically qualifies (her Tasso translation).

  • 1834TassoDemonstrated

    “With regard to Mr Emerson, I had two reasons... for wishing him to see my Tasso.”

    Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 3oth Novr 1834

    Engagement_type Translated automatically qualifies (her manuscript Tasso translation).

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe1record
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850
1846—

A Rhythmical Translation of Goethe's Tasso

“A Rhythmical Translation of Goethe's Tasso”
mentioned
“This half hour Tasso has been walking towards us; Yet still he dallies, seems irresolute, And cannot quite decide to come or go.”

Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. · p370

Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p370; page given is to the 1869 reprint.