Freedom

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Freedom

Poet(s)

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

Credits

Translator

Blackie, John Stuart

Metadata research and editing

DVPP Project Team

Source

Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 130:794, 789, December 1881.

First line

Man was not born to say—I will be free

Original language

German

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Related poems

Linked as a series in the same issue

Knowledge of Men
Lies
Life the School of Manhood
Patience
Rule of Life
The Wisdom of Life
Good Society
Quarrels
Self-Knowledge
The Golden Age
Divide et Impera
Envy
Monuments
Prophets
Slander
The World and How to Use It
Utopia
Youth
God. Innate Ideas
Perversity
Secrecy
Solitude and Society
The Infinite
To-day
Toleration
God
Obedience
Originality
The Divine Procedure
Genus Irritabile Vatum
Limits of Humanity
The Vocation of Man

Notes and attribution research

Part of a group of translations under the general title Words of Wisdom from Goethe by J. S. B. (pp. 785-792) (KF). Blackie published his translations in The Wisdom of Goethe, W. Blackwood and Sons, 1883 (AC).

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Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 9144

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Freedom