Author
Ludwig Achim von Arnim; Clemens Brentano is documented in Fuller’s letters (1843–1845). 2 distinct works are named, most often in Letter to Henry W. Longfellow, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “excerpted”.
Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this author is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →
Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had Ludwig Achim von Arnim; Clemens Brentano’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
“Mutter, ach Mutter! Es hungert mich / Gieb mir Brodt, sonst sterbe ich. The first is a Volkslied of your adopted nation”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · New York, 24thjune, 1845
Quotes a full stanza of the German folk verse verbatim, implying the text was in hand.
“The first is a Volkslied of your adopted nation, and deeply expressive of that deepest sadness in life that, though blessings come, they so often come too late / Mutter, ach Mutter! Es hungert mich / Gieb mir Brodt, sonst sterbe ich. / [...] / Da lag das Kind schon auf der Bahr.”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“Will Mr Longfellow oblige Miss Fuller by lending her for a short time Des Knaben Wunderhorn?”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.
“The first is a Volkslied of your adopted nation, and deeply expressive of that deepest sadness in life that, though blessings come, they so often come too late / Mutter, ach Mutter!”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. IV. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.
Inferred Hudspeth identified the poem Fuller transcribes as "Verspätung" from Des Knaben Wunderhorn, the celebrated collection of German folk songs edited by Ludwig Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano.