WorkLudwig Achim von Arnim; Clemens Brentano

“Verspätung" in Des Knaben Wunderhorn”

"Verspätung" in Des Knaben Wunderhorn, (1806–08) Inferred

Ludwig Achim von Arnim; Clemens Brentano · 1806–08

InferredHudspeth 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.

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Documented 1845

Letters

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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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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. Transcendentalist

V. New York1record

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Letter to James Nathan

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“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.