WorkJohann Wolfgang von Goethe

Select Minor Poems of Goethe and Schiller

InferredFuller discusses John Dwight's translations of Goethe's minor poems, which she has read in manuscript form as part of the volume he is editing for Mr. Ripley's *Specimens of Foreign Standard Literature* series; she praises them as "very beautiful" and laments that her own translations are inferior, indicating she has also been working on translations of Goethe and others for the same project.

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I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist1record

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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“Mr Dwight's translations from Goethe are very beautiful, if for those alone, the little volume he is editing for Mr Ripley will be valuable to the public.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

Inferred Fuller discusses John Dwight's translations of Goethe's minor poems, which she has read in manuscript form as part of the volume he is editing for Mr. Ripley's Specimens of Foreign Standard Literature series; she praises them as "very beautiful" and laments that her own translations are inferior, indicating she has also been working on translations of Goethe and others for the same project.