WorkJohann Wolfgang von Goethe

Über Kunst und Altertum [On Art and Antiquity]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) · 1827

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Documented 1833–1839

Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

Letters

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed1record
IV. Transcendentalist1record
V. New York
VI. Europe
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1833—

Letter to Frederic H. Hedge

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“I have with me those works of Goethe which I have not read and am now perusing Kunst and Alterthum and Campagne in Frankreich.”

The same sentence also names Campagne in Frankreich 1792 [Campaign in France]. Counted as one engagement.

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Vol. I: 1817-1838. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

1839—

Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“I have found for instance all the Frankfort particulars in letters to Meyer.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.

Preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

1816—

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

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“I have with me the works of Goethe ... am now engaged upon 'Kunst and Alterthum”

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.