Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

WorkJohann Wolfgang von Goethe

Ruysdael als Dichter [Ruysdael as Poet]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832)

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Documented 1839

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist1record
V. New York
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
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1832
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Records of Conversations on Goethe and Art

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“Ruysdael as Poet." – I made some remarks on the Word Dichter, ^inventor.^”

Fuller, Margaret. "Records of Conversations on Goethe and Art." Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Goethe's essay 'Ruysdael als Dichter' (1816), first published in Morgenblatt für gebildete Stände (May 3, 1816); later reprinted in his collected essays on art.

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On Ruysdael

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“Ruysdael as Poet / Maker, inventer.”

Fuller, Margaret. "On Ruysdael." Houghton Library, Harvard University.

This manuscript is a close translation/paraphrase of Goethe's essay 'Ruysdael als Dichter' (1816), published in Über Kunst und Altertum, Vol. 1, No. 2 (1816).