WorkLudwig Achim von Arnim; Clemens Brentano

Des Knaben Wunderhorn [The Youth's Magic Horn]

Ludwig Achim von Arnim; Clemens Brentano · Berlin: Realschulbuchhandlung, 1806–08

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Documented 1843

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  • 1845Des Knaben Wunderhorn (Verspatung)Demonstrated

    “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.

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist1record
V. New York
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850
1843—

Letter to Henry W. Longfellow

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“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.