WorkJohn Sullivan Dwight

Select Minor Poems, Translated from the German of Goethe and Schiller

Select Minor Poems, Translated from the German of Goethe and Schiller (Boston: Hilliard, Gray, 1839; as vol. IX of Ripley's Specimens of Foreign Standard Literature) Inferred

John Sullivan Dwight (1813–1893) · Boston: Hilliard, Gray, 1839; as vol. IX of Ripley's Specimens of Foreign Standard Literature

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Documented 1837–1840

Letters

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this work is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist2records

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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1837—

Letter to Caroline Sturgis

p297

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“Yes! John Dwight's translations are beautiful—wonderful even!”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

Inferred Fuller names "John Dwight's translations" of Schiller and praises them as "beautiful—wonderful even!" Hudspeth identified that Dwight was preparing Select Minor Poems, which Fuller had read in manuscript form; Dwight had also published his version of Schiller's "Das Lied von der Glocke" in American Monthly Magazine.

1840—

Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson

p183

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“I sent "Nature," (and lamented I had not your book proper for the occasion) John Dwight's volume and "the Dial.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.

Hudspeth identified this as 'Dwight's volume was his Select Minor Poems, Translated from the German of Goethe and Schiller, vol. 2 of Specimens of Foreign Standard Literature, ed. George Ripley (Boston, 1838).'