WorkJohann Wolfgang von Goethe

“An ein goldnes Herz, das er am Halse trug”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832)

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  • 1834An ein goldnes Herz (To a golden heart)Demonstrated

    “The little piece "To a golden heart" is done, I think, better than any of these, though translated several years ago.”

    Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · translated several years ago

    Translated engagement type; explicit note of translation completed years earlier.

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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“The little piece "To a golden heart" is done, I think, better than any of these, though translated several years ago”

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