WorkNovalis (Georg Philipp Friedrich von Hardenberg)
[Poetical works, general reference] Inferred
Novalis (Georg Philipp Friedrich von Hardenberg) (1772–1801) · 1799–1802
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Documented 1832–1846
Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)
Letters • Essays • Journals • Manuscripts
Selected engagements, in chronological order.
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 →
“I felt very new about Novalis,—'the good Novalis,' as you call him after Mr. Carlyle.”
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.
“Art on Novalis. Read Carlyle and see what I have to say that he has not said._ Rien de bon.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Journal 1840." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (85); Box 5 (85).
“Novalis has called philosophy the soul’s home-sickness. May not Music, also, be so defined, with even more fullness of meaning?”
Fuller, Margaret. "Music." New-York Daily Tribune, 31 January 1846. · 31 January 1846
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“His hymns are chiefly remarkable for their religious tenderness; his other poems are very incomplete in their appearance and require the commentary of his prose to make them intelligible.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Journal 1833–1842." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (83); Box 5 (83).
Inferred Fuller discusses Novalis's hymns and prose fragments generally without naming specific titles beyond 'Die Lehrlinge zu Sais' and 'Heinrich von Ofterdingen.' This entry covers the body of his work she engages analytically. Fuller's extended critical analysis (pp. 13–15) discusses Novalis's writing generally: his hymns ('Geistliche Lieder,' 1799–1802), his other poems, and his prose fragments.
“To the veneration of Novalis for the Virgin Muchter imparts the purity of his genius.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Mostly Extracts." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (89); Box 5 (89).
Inferred Title inferred as general reference to his poetical works.
“I could engage, however, to furnish at least two articles on Novalis and Korner.”
Inferred Although a specific Novalis text is not named in this passage, Fuller's intention to write about him suggests a considered assessment of his contribution to literary thought.
“she had read German books... Novalis... As in Helene, as in Novalis, I recognised, with delight, the eye that gazed, the ear that listened, till the spectres came.”
Inferred Margaret Fuller engaged with the writings of Novalis, a seminal figure in German Romanticism, identifying his mystical inclinations with a shared sensibility.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.