WorkJohann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832)
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Documented 1847
Essays
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 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.
“The “ Titan ” of Richter, the “ Wanderjahre ” of Goёthe, the Elena of Taylor, the pictures of Turner, had not prepared me for the visions of beauty”
Fuller, Margaret. "Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . XVI." New-York Daily Tribune, 25 December 1847. · 25 December 1847