WorkJohann Wolfgang von Goethe
Iphigenie auf Tauris [Iphigenia in Tauris] (prose version 1779; verse version published 1787)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) · Berlin: Göschen, 1787
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Documented 1837–1846
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“Goethe's Hermann and Dorothea, Goetz von Berlichingen, Iphigenia, first part of Faust,—three weeks of thorough study this, as valuable to me as to them,—and Clavigo”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
“I wish, also, to consider the Faust, Elective Affinities, Apprenticeship and Pilgrimages of Wilhelm Meister, and Iphigenia.”
“I turn to the Iphigenia ? a work beyond the possibility of negation [...] There is an English translation (I know not how good) of Goethe's Iphigenia.”
Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860.
“In Goethe the Iphigenia and Tasso would now reward your patient attention”
The same sentence also names Torquato Tasso. Counted as one engagement.
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.
“Iphigenia he speaks of in his journals as "his daughter”
Inferred Named explicitly; Iphigenia as Goethe's 'daughter' noted in footnote reference to his journal. Goethe's Iphigenie auf Tauris is referenced as the mature ideal woman.
Named explicitly; Iphigenia as Goethe's 'daughter' noted in footnote reference to his journal.
“Goethe's Iphigenia, the mature woman, with its myriad delicate traits, never surpasses, scarcely equals what we know of her in Euripides.”
Inferred Goethe's Iphigenia compared to Euripides' Iphigenia — 'Goethe's Iphigenia [...] never surpasses, scarcely equals what we know of her in Euripides.'. Comparative assessment of Goethe vs Euripides.
Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.
“We have selected Iphigenia and Tasso as the most finished results of their author's mature views of art. [...] The unity of plan in Iphigenia is perfect.”
Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860. · p133
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“p54: '9, 10, "Iphigenie", "Tasso", "The Natural Daughter" "Elpenor," "Clavigo" "Stella" "Claudine" "Erwin & Elmire" - look over these”
Fuller, Margaret. "Notes toward The Life of Goethe." Houghton Library, Harvard University.
“Within the year, she had read Goethe's Faust, Tasso, Iphigenia, Hermann and Dorothea, Elective Affinities, and Memoirs”
“Goethe's Hermann and Dorothea, Goetz von Berlichingen, Iphigenia, first part of Faust”
“Faust, and Tasso, and Mignon, and Makaria, and Iphigenia, became irresistible names.”
This scholarly archive identifies the play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, recognizing its inclusion in a significant literary constellation for Fuller.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.