WorkJohann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832)
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Documented 1839–1841
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“I shd like also to know what you think of Goethe at eighty after having seen him (in Werther) at twenty three.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.
“The effect of all this outward pressure on the poet is recorded in Werther ? a production that he afterwards undervalued, and to which he even felt positive aversion.”
Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860. · p29-35
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“p8–p9: 'At the death of Jerusalem this abid all their discontents which had been nursing for about two years crystallized into Werther, even as the waters on the point of freezing in a vase shoot into a solid form at the slightest motion.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Notes toward The Life of Goethe." Houghton Library, Harvard University.