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“Epigrammatisch" (also called "Lebensregel" / "Generalbeichte"), in Goethe's collected poems”

"Epigrammatisch" (also called "Lebensregel" / "Generalbeichte"), in Goethe's collected poems (composed c. 1814–15; published in Goethe's Werke)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) · composed c. 1814–15; published in Goethe's Werke

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Documented 1836

Letters

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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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 →

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist1record

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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1832

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1844

1846

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Letter to Unknown Recipient

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“I have just been reading Goethe's Lebensregel.”

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

Fuller names the source explicitly as "Goethe's Lebensregel" and describes having just finished reading the poem, which Hudspeth identified as Goethe's "Epigrammatisch" (also called "Lebensregel").