WorkFriedrich Schiller

“Das Ideal und das Leben”

Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805)

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Documented 1837

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Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had this work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.

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    “I have translated great part of Das Ideal und das Leben, and about half of die Kiinstler”

    Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 31st May, 1837.

    Translated engagement type; explicit statement of having translated a large portion of the poem.

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist1record
V. New York
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850
1837—

Letter to John S. Dwight

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“I have translated great part of Das Ideal und das Leben”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.