Writing Sampler

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Writing Sampler was an unpublished work by the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard. The pseudonymous author attached to the Sampler is A.B.C.D.E.F. Godthaab. Sampler was intended to be a sequel to the Prefaces which was published in 1844. It was translated and published posthumously in English in 1997.^[1]

Writing Sampler was intended to emphasize the ironic and satirical elements of the Prefaces. It is also a historical social commentary of life in Copenhagen in the 1840s, and it references people and events of note at the time. In particular, it focuses on the relationship between the esthetic and religious stages of life.

What I write, then, in this book, which is not actually a book, is intended to draw your favorable attention to me. In the old days, one initially wrote a work by which one sought to gain prominence, but now the task is so manifold that competence in everything is required. ... a person does best these days by producing a sampler or a style book to qualify himself and to draw the public's attention to himself before he chooses this way of making a living and settles down as an author...
— A.B.C.D.E.F. Godthaab, Writing Sampler^[1]

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^ ^a ^b Kierkegaard, Søren. Prefaces/Writing Sampler, Princeton University Press, 1997, ISBN 0-691-04827-4

Søren Kierkegaard

Works

1841–1846	On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates Either/Or De omnibus dubitandum est Two Upbuilding Discourses, 1843 Repetition Three Upbuilding Discourses, 1843 Fear and Trembling Four Upbuilding Discourses, 1843 Two Upbuilding Discourses, 1844 Three Upbuilding Discourses, 1844 Philosophical Fragments Prefaces The Concept of Anxiety Four Upbuilding Discourses, 1844 Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions Stages on Life's Way Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments Two Ages: A Literary Review
1847–1854	Edifying Discourses in Diverse Spirits Works of Love Christian Discourses The Crisis and a Crisis in the Life of an Actress The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air Two Minor Ethical-Religious Essays The Sickness unto Death Three Discourses at the Communion on Fridays Practice in Christianity The Book on Adler For Self-Examination
Posthumous	The Point of View of My Work as an Author Judge for Yourselves! The Journals Writing Sampler

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Danish Golden Age
Søren Kierkegaard Research Center
Howard V. and Edna H. Hong Kierkegaard Library
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Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook
Nytorv 27 (birthplace)
Rosenborggade 7–9
Skindergade 38 (last home)
Statue of Søren Kierkegaard
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