WorkGottfried August Bürger

“Lenore”

Gottfried August Bürger (1747–1794)

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Documented 1848

Letters • Manuscripts

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe1record
✦. Memoirs (1852)
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Letter to Emelyn Story

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“But why Leonora? Not Burger's Leonora?”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. V. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.

Undated

Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.

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Early Reading Notes on Ballads

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“Burger's "Leonora" and "Freebooter" very fine / Their verse is true philosophy for a poet”

Fuller, Margaret. "Early Reading Notes on Ballads." Houghton Library, Harvard University.