Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

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August von Platen (1796–1835)

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Documented 1841

Manuscripts

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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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 →

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist1record
V. New York
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850
1841—

Reading Notes, 1841

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“From Count Platen, The spirit ever sighs forward into the distance, / And would always stretch further and further: / Never could I long cleave to a clod, / Though I had an Eden on every side.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Reading Notes, 1841." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1221 (Caroline Sturgis Tappan papers, 1838–1921).