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“Novalis," The Foreign Review and Continental Miscellany, Vol. 4, pp. 97-141”

Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) · July 1829

InferredFuller attributes the phrase 'the good Novalis' to Carlyle, which James Clarke had apparently used in a prior letter. Hudspeth identified the source as Carlyle's essay 'Novalis' in The Foreign Review and Continental Miscellany (July 1829), Carlyle's first major critical evaluation of Novalis in English,

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“the good Novalis,' as you call him after Mr. Carlyle.”

Fuller, Margaret. Letter 78 (7 August 1832). In The Letters of Margaret Fuller, Vol. I: 1817-1838, edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

Inferred Fuller attributes the phrase 'the good Novalis' to Carlyle, which James Clarke had apparently used in a prior letter. Hudspeth identified the source as Carlyle's essay 'Novalis' in The Foreign Review and Continental Miscellany (July 1829), Carlyle's first major critical evaluation of Novalis in English,