WorkJohann Wolfgang von Goethe

Goethes Werke: Vollständige Ausgabe letzter Hand [Goethe's Works: Complete Final Edition]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) · Stuttgart: Cotta, 1827

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Letter to James F. Clarke

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“It seems to me as if the mind of Goethe had embraced the universe. I have felt this lately, in reading his lyric poems. I am enchanted while I read.”

Fuller, Margaret. Letter 77 ([ca. 1 August 1832]). In The Letters of Margaret Fuller, Vol. I: 1817-1838, edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

Fuller names Goethe and specifies 'his lyric poems.' Hudspeth identified the edition as Goethes Werke: Vollständige Ausgabe letzter Hand (Stuttgart: Cotta, 1827–30), with volume 3 containing the 'Lyrisches.' Fuller describes her current reading practice ('I persevere in reading the great sage, some part of every day') and comments extensively on how Goethe's work causes her to lose her personal identity.