1837—
Letter to John S. Dwight
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“EMs und Alles" [= Eins und Alles] ... by Goethe I have translated”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
WorkJohann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Eins und Alles”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832)
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Documented 1837
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- 1837Eins und AllesDemonstrated
“they were expressed in this poem of his "Eins and Alles," of whh I send you a rude translation”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Providence R I July 3d 1837
Translated engagement type; she sends her own rude translation of the poem.
- 1837Eins und Alles; SehnsuchtDemonstrated
“EMs und Alles" and "Sehnsucht" by Goethe I have translated but still worse than what I send.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 31st May, 1837.
Translated engagement type; explicit statement of having translated the Goethe poems.
When Fuller engaged with this work
1837—
Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson?
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“I do not go to him as a guide or friend but as a great thinker, who makes me think, a wonderful artist who gratifies my tastes— As far as he had religion or morality, I shld say they were expressed in this poem of his "Eins and Alles," of whh I send you a rude translation”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
Inferred Fuller names Goethe's poem “Eins und Alles” and describes it as expressing his religious and moral philosophy; she sends a translation of it to her correspondent and is actively working with the text.