WorkNovalis (Georg Philipp Friedrich von Hardenberg)

Novalis Schriften

Novalis Schriften [Novalis's Writings]

Novalis (Georg Philipp Friedrich von Hardenberg) (1772–1801)

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Documented 1832

Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

Letters

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed2records

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe

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1832—

Letter to James F. Clarke

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“About Novalis!- a wondrous youth- and who has only written one volume... one-sidedness, imperfection and glow of a mind like Novalis's seem refreshingly human to me.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.

Inferred Fuller explicitly names Novalis and describes currently re-reading "his one volume" chapter by chapter—a clear active-reading signal; Hudspeth identified she had discovered the poetry of Friedrich, Freiherr von Hardenberg (Novalis), and the volume is almost certainly the Tieck-Schlegel Novalis Schriften (first collected edition 1802; expanded edition 1826–46).

1832—

Letter to James F. Clarke

p177

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“I wish to talk about such an uncommon person,—about Novalis! a wondrous youth, and who has only written one volume.”

Fuller, Margaret. Letter 77 ([ca. 1 August 1832]). In The Letters of Margaret Fuller, Vol. I: 1817-1838, edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

Hudspeth identified the edition as the 1826 one-volume Schriften (edited by Tieck and Schlegel), a reissue of the original 1802 Berlin edition, which contained Hymnen an die Nacht, aphorisms, and the two fragmentary novels Die Lehrlinge zu Sais and Heinrich von Ofterdingen.

Preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

1852—

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

p147

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“Körner, Novalis, and something of Richter... I have not anybody to speak to... about Novalis, a wondrous youth, and who has only written one volume...”

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.