WorkJohann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832)
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Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)
Selected engagements, in chronological order.
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Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had this work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
“I have just been reading Goethe's Lebensregel. It is easy to say "Do not trouble yourself with useless regrets for the past...”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 23 May, 1836
Explicit 'I have just been reading Goethe's Lebensregel.'
“I have just been reading Goethe's Lebensregel.”
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.
The editors identify this as Goethe's poetic rule of life, found within his collected works.