Goethe As Revealed In His Poetry
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Goethe As Revealed In His Poetry
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Author : Barker Fairley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1963
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Selected Poetry
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Author : Goethe
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2005-04-28
Selected Poetry written by Goethe and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-04-28 with Poetry categories.
'Shall I embrace you, must I let you go? Again you haunt me: come then, hold me fast!' Goethe viewed the writing of poetry as essentially autobiographical and the works selected in this volume represent over sixty years in the life of the poet. In early poems such as 'Prometheus' he rails against religion in an almost ecstatic fervour, while 'To the Moon' is an enigmatic meditation on the end of a love affair. The Roman Elegies show Goethe's use of Classical metres in homage to abcient Rome and its poets, and 'The Diary' , supressed for more than a century, is a narrative poem whose eroticism is unusually combined with its morality. Arranged chronologically, David Luke's verse translations are set alonjgside the German orginals to give a picture of Goethe's poetic development. This edition also includes an introduction and notes placing the poems in the context of the poet's life and times.
The Autobiography Of Goethe Truth And Poetry From My Own Life
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Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
language : en
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Release Date : 1882
The Autobiography Of Goethe Truth And Poetry From My Own Life written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and has been published by Library of Alexandria this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1882 with categories.
It would appear that for inquirers into Foreign Literature, for all men anxious to see and understand the European world as it lies around them, a great problem is presented in this Goethe; a singular, highly significant phenomenon, and now also means more or less complete for ascertaining its significance. A man of wonderful, nay, unexampled reputation and intellectual influence among forty millions of reflective, serious and cultivated men, invites us to study him; and to determine for ourselves, whether and how far such influence has been salutary, such reputation merited. That this call will one day be answered, that Goethe will be seen and judged of in his real character among us, appears certain enough. His name, long familiar everywhere, has now awakened the attention of critics in all European countries to his works: he is studied wherever true study exists: eagerly studied even in France; nay, some considerable knowledge of his nature and spiritual importance seems already to prevail there. [Footnote: Witness Le Tasse, Drame par Duval, and the Criticisms on it. See also the Essays in the Globe, Nos. 55, 64 (1826).] For ourselves, meanwhile, in giving all due weight to so curious an exhibition of opinion, it is doubtless our part, at the same time, to beware that we do not give it too much. This universal sentiment of admiration is wonderful, is interesting enough; but it must not lead us astray. We English stand as yet without the sphere of it; neither will we plunge blindly in, but enter considerately, or, if we see good, keep aloof from it altogether. Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property, of a man; like light, it can give little or nothing, but at most may show what is given; often it is but a false glare, dazzling the eyes of the vulgar, lending by casual extrinsic splendour the brightness and manifold glance of the diamond to pebbles of no value. A man is in all cases simply the man, of the same intrinsic worth and weakness, whether his worth and weakness lie hidden in the depths of his own consciousness, or be betrumpeted and beshouted from end to end of the habitable globe. These are plain truths, which no one should lose sight of; though, whether in love or in anger, for praise or for condemnation, most of us are too apt to forget them. But least of all can it become the critic to 'follow a multitude to do evil' even when that evil is excess of admiration; on the contrary, it will behoove him to lift up his voice, how feeble soever, how unheeded soever, against the common delusion; from which, if he can save, or help to save any mortal, his endeavours will have been repaid. With these things in some measure before us, we must remind our readers of another influence at work in this affair, and one acting, as we think, in the contrary direction. That pitiful enough desire for 'originality' which lurks and acts in all minds, will rather, we imagine, lead the critic of Foreign Literature to adopt the negative than the affirmative with regard to Goethe. If a writer indeed feel that he is writing for England alone, invisibly and inaudibly to the rest of the Earth, the temptations may be pretty equally balanced; if he write for some small conclave, which he mistakenly thinks the representative of England, they may sway this way or that, as it chances. But writing in such isolated spirit is no longer possible.
Conversations With Goethe In The Last Years Of His Life
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Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1839
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The Poems Of Goethe
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Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1882
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Selected Poems
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Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
language : en
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Release Date : 1998
Selected Poems written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and has been published by Northwestern University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Poetry categories.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) is universally recognized as a towering figure in world literature. This major new collection brings together poems from every decade of Goethe's writing life, in both their German originals and John Whaley's magnificent new translations--complete with their astonishing technical virtuosity, depth of feeling, wit, and occasional bawdry.
Goethe And The Ginkgo
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Author : Siegfried Unseld
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2010-04-15
Goethe And The Ginkgo written by Siegfried Unseld and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
In 1815, Goethe gave symbolic expression to his intense relationship with Marianne Willemer, a recently married woman thirty-five years his junior. He gave her a leaf from the ginkgo tree, explaining that, like its deeply cleft yet still whole leaf, he was "single yet twofold." Although it is not known if their relationship was ever consummated, they did exchange love poetry, and Goethe published several of Marianne's poems in his West-East Divan without crediting her authorship. In this beautiful little book, renowned Goethe scholar Siegfried Unseld considers what this episode means to our estimation of a writer many consider nearly godlike in stature. Unseld begins by exploring the botanical and medical lore of the ginkgo, including the use of its nut as an aphrodisiac and anti-aging serum. He then delves into Goethe's writings for the light they shed on his relationship with Marianne. Unseld reveals Goethe as a great yet human being, subject, as any other man, to the vagaries of passion.
Poems Goethe
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Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
language : en
Publisher: Everyman Paperback Classics
Release Date : 2000
Poems Goethe written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and has been published by Everyman Paperback Classics this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Poetry categories.
A collection of the poetry of Johann Wolfgang Goethe, the pre-eminent figure of German literature, as well as Germany's greatest lyric poet.
The Man Who Was Goethe Memoirs Letters Essays
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Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2023-12-03
The Man Who Was Goethe Memoirs Letters Essays written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-03 with Literary Collections categories.
This meticulously edited collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Biography Life of Johann Wolfgang Goethe Autobiography and Memoirs Truth and Poetry: From My Own Life Maxims and Reflections Letters Letters from Italy (Italian Journey) Letters from Switzerland Correspondence with K. F. Zelter Eckermann's Conversations with Goethe Essays Theory of Colours Winckelmann and His Age Introduction to the Propyläen Criticism on Goethe & His Works: Goethe: The Writer (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Byron and Goethe (Giuseppe Mazzini) The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust' (H. B. Cotterill) Goethe's Farbenlehre: Theory of Colors (I&II) (John Tyndall)
Goethe Revolution And Renunciation 1790 1803
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Author : Nicholas Boyle
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1991
Goethe Revolution And Renunciation 1790 1803 written by Nicholas Boyle and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Authors, German categories.
In this, the second volume of Goethe: The Poet and the Age, Nicholas Boyle covers the most eventful and crowded years of Goethe's life: the period of the French Revolution, which turned his life upside down, and of the German philosophical revolution which ushered in the periods of Idealismand Romanticism. It was also a period dominated by two intense personal relationships: with Schiller, Weimar's other great poet, philosopher, and dramatist, and with Christiana Vulpius, the mother of his son. Goethe was a poet of supreme intelligence and sensitivity living through political andintellectual changes which have shaped the modern world. The transition into modernity is the theme of this volume: Goethe's harrowing experiences of the Revolutionary wars; the explosion of new ideas in philosophy and literature which he absorbed and adapted and which for ten years made Jena theintellectual capital of Europe; the political upheaval initiated by Napoleon which destroyed the Holy Roman Empire in which Goethe had grown up, and with it the cultural role he had envisaged for Jena and Weimar. Boyle vividly narrates both the large-scale events and the personal dramas of thisexciting time, to give lucid accounts of important thinkers whom English readers have hitherto found inaccessible, and to analyse in new ways Goethe's works of the period, notably Wilhelm Meister, The Natural Daughter, and Faust.