WorkJohann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832)
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Selected engagements, in chronological order.
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 →
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 send you the close of my translation which I would like to have you read- I have left out some of the Harp's Swedenborgian remarks”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [mid-August? 1832]
Engagement type Translated (Fuller's translation of Wilhelm Meister) automatically qualifies per rule.
“Wer sich der Einsamkeit ergibt, Ach! der ist bald allein, Ein jeder lebt, ein jeder liebt, Und lasst ihn seiner Pein”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 25 and 28 October 1840
Verbatim four-line German stanza from Goethe reproduced in full, implying the text was open before her.
“I have realized in these last days the thought of Goethe,— "He who would in loneliness live, ah! he is soon alone. Each one loves, each one lives, and leaves him to his pain.”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli · Rieti, July 11, 1848 (letter heading)
Two-sentence lyric quotation reproduced verbatim from Goethe/Wilhelm Meister, reading as a sustained stanza-length passage.
No datable encounters with von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang have been catalogued yet.
Undated
Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.
“Mignon.Lied song / So laßt mich scheinen, bis ich werde, / Zieht mir das weiße Kleid nicht aus! / Ich eile von der schonsten Erde / Hinab in jenes feste Haus.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Translations from German." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086; Box 5 (101).