WorkJohann Ludwig Uhland

Gedichte

Gedichte [Collected Poems]: 'Vorklage' (prefatory poem) and miscellaneous aphoristic verses (1789; enlarged eds. 1806, 1815) Inferred

Johann Ludwig Uhland (1787–1862) · 1789; enlarged eds. 1806, 1815

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Documented 1834–1839

Letters • Journals • Manuscripts

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed2records

IV. Transcendentalist1record

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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1834—

Letter to Frederic H. Hedge

p213

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“I have your Uhland and three vols. of Richter which shall be faithfully returned as any other books you have the kindness to lend me.”

Fuller, Margaret. "To Frederic H. Hedge, 30 November 1834." In The Letters of Margaret Fuller, Vol. I: 1817–1838, edited by Robert N. Hudspeth, 212–215. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

Inferred Hudspeth identified uncertainty about which of Uhland's works she had, with the Gedichte (Tübingen: Cotta, 1815)—the canonical collection of his ballads and lyrics—being most likely.

1834—

Letter to Frederic H. Hedge

p215

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“I have been reading your favorite Uhland in some still midnight hours of late and begin to understand the meaning of certain critiques in your article on Schiller”

Fuller, Margaret. "To Frederic H. Hedge, 26 December 1834." In The Letters of Margaret Fuller, Vol. I: 1817–1838, edited by Robert N. Hudspeth, 215–217. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

1835—

Letter to Frederic H. Hedge

p228

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“I return your Uhland which has been to me the source of much delight. I have kept him too long but you know I was absent from home a long time.”

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

Inferred Fuller returns Hedge's copy of Uhland, calling it "the source of much delight." The specific volume is unnamed but was likely Uhland's Gedichte (Poems), a collection of ballads and lyric poetry that reached its ninth edition by 1835.

1839—

Journal April 1839

p48

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“Vom Uhland / 'Anfangs sind wir fast zu kläglich, / Strömen endlos Thränen aus...' [unnamed lyric, pp. 48] / An den Tod.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Journal April 1839." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (Box A); Box 5 (99).

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Translations from German

pp. 23–27

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“The severest, noblest toils bring not to the human breast such free pleasure as nature lavishes with a single gift.' — Goethe.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Translations from German." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086; Box 5 (101).

Inferred Fuller labels the translation 'Vorklage to Goethe's Gedichte' on p. 26, naming the section heading of the collected Gedichte rather than a standalone poem title. First (p. 23), three aphoristic verse fragments labeled 'Goethe' at the end of each — these are miscellaneous Gedichte or epigrams from Goethe's collected verse.