WorkJohann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832)
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Documented 1842
Essays • Journals
Selected engagements, in chronological order.
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 →
Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had this work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
“I have read, too, Heyne's letters twice, Sartor Resartus once, some of Goethe's late diaries, Coleridge's Literary Remains”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 1836
Same explicit list sentence covering Goethe's late diaries.
“He read me verses. — Dichtung und Wahrheit is certainly the name for his life, for he does not care for facts, except so far as …”
Fuller, Margaret. "Journal Fragments, 1842." Margaret Fuller Family Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard University.
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“Nemo contra deum nisi deus ipse. SUCH is the motto prefixed by Goethe to the last books of “Dichtung und Wahrheit” [Fancy and Truth].”
Fuller, Margaret. "Goethe." New-York Daily Tribune, .