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Der Spaziergang

InferredFuller's heading 'Die Spazingung' on p7 is a phonetic transcription of Schiller's famous poem 'Der Spaziergang' (1795), used as the title for her own Cincinnati prose-poem passage. The title signals she was reading or had recently read Schiller's elegy and uses it as a formal/generic model. Fuller heads a Cincinnati prose-poem passage with ' 'Der Spaziergang' (literally 'The Walk').

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Documented 1838

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I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

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V. New York

VI. Europe

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Journal Entry: Winter 1838–1839

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“Der Spaziergang / Cincin'i Nov 5th 38— / At eventide come sometimes heavy thoughts—”

Fuller, Margaret. "Journal Entry: Winter 1838–1839." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086.

Inferred Fuller's heading 'Die Spazingung' on p7 is a phonetic transcription of Schiller's famous poem 'Der Spaziergang' (1795), used as the title for her own Cincinnati prose-poem passage. The title signals she was reading or had recently read Schiller's elegy and uses it as a formal/generic model. Fuller heads a Cincinnati prose-poem passage with ' 'Der Spaziergang' (literally 'The Walk').

Fuller's heading 'Die Spazingung' on p7 is a phonetic transcription of Schiller's famous poem 'Der Spaziergang' (1795), used as the title for her own Cincinnati prose-poem passage. Schiller's poem (published in Die Hren, 1795; reprinted in his Gedichte, 1800) is a 200-line elegy in elegiac distichs tracing a walk from nature into civilization and back, meditating on human history and freedom.