WorkJohann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Das Göttliche" [The Divine / The God-like] (composed 1783; published 1785; in Goethe's Werke, Vol. 8, 1789)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) · 1783; first published 1785
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Documented 1837
Letters • Manuscripts
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“I could never get beyond the first verse of "Das Gottliche”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 31st May, 1837.
Engagement_type Translated automatically qualifies; she attempted to translate the poem, implying the source text in hand.
“Goethe's unrhimed poems are entirely beyond me. When there is no metre to guide me I can bear no words but his own and could never get beyond the first verse of "Das Gottliche”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
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“The God-like. Goethe / Noble is Man! Strong! full of resources How different is this from any other Being. – / Hail to those unknown, higher essense in which we confide.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Translations from German." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086; Box 5 (101).