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Iphigenia in Tauris

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InferredFuller’s words — “It was a melancholy praise bestowed on the German Iphigenia, that it was an echo of the Greek mind. O give us something rather than Greece more Grecian, so new, so univer…” — point to Iphigenia in Tauris, but she does not give the work’s full title or author here; the identification of the specific work is the editor’s.

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“It was a melancholy praise bestowed on the German Iphigenia, that it was an echo of the Greek mind. O give us something rather than Greece more Grecian, so new, so universal, so individual !”

Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. · p113

Inferred Fuller’s words — “It was a melancholy praise bestowed on the German Iphigenia, that it was an echo of the Greek mind. O give us something rather than Greece more Grecian, so new, so univer…” — point to Iphigenia in Tauris, but she does not give the work’s full title or author here; the identification of the specific work is the editor’s.

Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p113; page given is to the 1869 reprint.