“I have read thoroughly (that is to say according to my present Ich) only two of his pieces- "Die Lehrlinge zu Sais" and Heinrich von Ofterdingen- From the former I have only brought away piecemeal impressions”
WorkNovalis (Georg Philipp Friedrich von Hardenberg)
Die Lehrlinge zu Sais [The Novices of Sais]
Die Lehrlinge zu Sais [The Novices of Sais] (written c. 1798-1800; pub. in Novalis Schriften
Novalis (Georg Philipp Friedrich von Hardenberg) (1772–1801) · posth. pub. 1802
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Documented 1832
Letters • Journals
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- 1832Die Lehrlinge zu SaisAttested
“I have read, thoroughly, only two of his pieces, "Die Lehrlinge zu Sais," and "Heinrich von Ofterdingen.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 7 August 1832
MERGED 2026-10-11: absorbed duplicate witness(es) re522 (L-2 Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth, letter_1006.txt; tier A; same passage); re526 (Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (sections), Mem-2-02 l.4925-4927; tier A; same passage) — counted once here. Explicit first-person statement 'I have read, thoroughly, only two of his pieces..."Die Lehrlinge zu Sais"'.
When Fuller engaged with this work
1832—
Letter to James F. Clarke
excerpted · analyzed · quoted · read2 selected passages
“T'is the spirit of Navalis's Lehrling zu Sais which I have just been reading...”
Fuller names Die Lehrlinge zu Sais twice and quotes directly from it in German, stating "I have just been reading," and recognizes the work's "spirit" in Clarke's sermon, confirmed in Hudspeth's translation of the German passage.
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.
1832—
Letter to James F. Clarke
p178analyzed · read
“I have read, thoroughly, only two of his pieces, 'Die Lehrlinge zu Sais,' and 'Heinrich von Ofterdingen.' From the former I have only brought away piecemeal impressions”
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.
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Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.
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Journal 1833–1842
p13–p23excerpted · analyzed · readManuscript page
“I will conclude at present with a translation of a part of a piece called 'The Pupils of Sais' which contains the germ of some of his favorite opinions. [...] 'Various are the ways of Men.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Journal 1833–1842." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (83); Box 5 (83).