WorkGeorge Henry Lewes

Life and Works of Goethe

Life and Works of Goethe (1855) Inferred

George Henry Lewes (1817–1878) · 1855

Inferredas Hudspeth identified: Lewes published his Life and Works of Goethe in 1855, but in 1846 the work was still in progress.

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Documented 1846

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. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe1record
✦. Memoirs (1852)
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Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“now writing a life of Goethe, a task for which he must be as unfit as irreligion and sparkling shallowness can make him”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. IV. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.

Inferred as Hudspeth identified: Lewes published his Life and Works of Goethe in 1855, but in 1846 the work was still in progress.