WorkNovalis (Georg Philipp Friedrich von Hardenberg)

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Novalis (Georg Philipp Friedrich von Hardenberg) (1772–1801) · posthumous, 1802

InferredFuller quotes at length from Novalis's criticism of Goethe's Wilhelm Meister, explicitly attributing it twice to 'Novalis'.

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Documented 1834

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I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed1record

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Fragmentary Reading Notes and Autobiographical Reflections

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“Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship is, in a certain sense thoroughly prosaic and modern_ The Romantic is completely levelled in it — so is the poetry of Nature, the Wonderful.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Fragmentary Reading Notes and Autobiographical Reflections." Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Inferred Fuller quotes at length from Novalis's criticism of Goethe's Wilhelm Meister, explicitly attributing it twice to 'Novalis'.

Fuller quotes Novalis's criticism of Wilhelm Meister and attributes it explicitly to 'Novalis'. Fuller responds: 'I should think there were many half meanings in all this.' She likely encountered the passage in a secondary source (Conversation's Lexicon or Menzel) rather than directly in Novalis's Schriften, but the attribution is explicit.