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Vanitas! Vanitatum Vanitas!

POEM DETAILS

Poem details

Vanitas! Vanitatum Vanitas!

METADATA

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Vanitas! Vanitatum Vanitas!

Poet(s)

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

Credits

Translator

Metadata research and editing

DVPP Project Team

Source

Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 80:492, 413–414, October 1856.

First line

I’ve cast my care on nothing now

Print context

Quoted in prose contribution

Original language

German

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Notes and attribution research

Poem included in the unsigned Wayside Songs, Original and Translated (403-29), by Andrew Wilson (Wellesley Index). (HR)

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 9312

XML

Alison Chapman (ed.) and the DVPP team, “Vanitas! Vanitatum Vanitas!,” Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project, Edition 0.98.11beta , University of Victoria, 7th May 2025, https://dvpp.uvic.ca/blackwoods/1856/pom_9312_vanitas_vanitatum_vanitas.html.

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