WorkFriedrich Schiller

“Die Ideale”

"Die Ideale" (1795), Inferred

InferredFuller paraphrases the final stanza of Schiller's "Die Ideale" (1795), which uses the image of grain building eternity grain by grain. Hudspeth's notes provide the German original and cite Edward Bulwer-Lytton's English translation published in 1844

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Documented 1837–1842

Letters

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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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 →

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist2records

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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1832

1836

1844

1846

1850

1837—

Letter to John S. Dwight

p280

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“Wie wenig, ach! hat sich entfaltet, / Diess wenige, wie klein und karg.”

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

Inferred Fuller opens with a German quotation, confirmed by editorial notes as from Schiller's “Die Ideale”: "Ah, how little has unfolded itself, / that little, how small and mean."

1842—

Letter to Elizabeth Hoar

p47

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“grain of sand on grain of sand, as Schiller said”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.

Inferred Fuller paraphrases the final stanza of Schiller's "Die Ideale" (1795), which uses the image of grain building eternity grain by grain. Hudspeth's notes provide the German original and cite Edward Bulwer-Lytton's English translation published in 1844

Hudspeth's notes provide the German original and cite Edward Bulwer-Lytton's English translation published in 1844