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Gesang der Geister über den Wassern [Song of the Spirits over the Waters]

Gesang der Geister über den Wassern [Song of the Spirits over the Waters] (1779), Inferred

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) · 1779

InferredFuller quotes the opening line of Goethe's lyric poem 'Gesang der Geister über den Wassern' (1779), set in quotation marks.

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Documented 1843

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York1record

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Summer on the Lakes, in 1843

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“The spirit of man is like the water.”

Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1844.

Inferred Fuller quotes the opening line of Goethe's lyric poem 'Gesang der Geister über den Wassern' (1779), set in quotation marks.