Selected Works of Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Selected Works of Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Publisher: Everyman's Library

Published: 2000-05-30

Total Pages: 1256

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Contains a brief biography of Goethe, a collection of some of his best-known works, and a sampling of his personal correspondence. Includes his four major works, together with a selection of his finest letters and poems. The Sorrows of Young Werther is a story of self-destructive love that made its author a celebrity overnight at the age of twenty-five. Its exploration of the conflicts between ideas and feelings, between circumstance and desire, continues in his controversial novel probing the institution of marriage, Elective Affinities. The cosmic drama of Faust goes far beyond the realism of the novels in a poetic exploration of good and evil, while Italian Journey, written in the author's old age, recalls his youth in Italy and the effect of Mediterranean culture on a young northerner. Translators include W. H. Auden, Louise Bogan, David Constantine, Barker Fairley, and Elizabeth Mayer.


The Essential Goethe

The Essential Goethe

Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2018-06-12

Total Pages: 1051

ISBN-13: 0691181047

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First published by Wordsworth Editions 1999 and 2007. First published by Princeton University Press in 2016.


Conversations of German Refugees ; Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, Or, The Renunciants

Conversations of German Refugees ; Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, Or, The Renunciants

Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 1995-11-05

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 9780691043456

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Goethe was a master of the short prose form. His two narrative cycles, Conversations of German Refugees and Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, both written during a high point of his career, address various social issues and reveal his experimentation with narrative and perspective. A traditional cycle of novellas, Conversations of German Refugees deals with the impact and significance of the French Revolution and suggests Goethe's ideas on the social function of his art. Goethe's last novel, Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, is a sequel to Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and to Conversations of German Refugees and is considered to be his most remarkable novel in form.


Essays on Art and Literature

Essays on Art and Literature

Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 1994-07-25

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9780691036571

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Part of an exhaustive series which provides English translations of a representative proportion of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's vast body of work, this volume contains such essays as "On Gothic Architecture", "On the Laocoon" and "Shakespeare: a Tribute."


Selected Poetry

Selected Poetry

Author: Goethe

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2005-04-28

Total Pages: 454

ISBN-13: 0141912200

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'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.


Maxims and Reflections

Maxims and Reflections

Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2005-12-01

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 0141939184

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Throughout his long, hectic and astonishingly varied life, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) would jot down his passing thoughts on theatre programmes, visiting cards, draft manuscripts and even bills ... Goethe was probably the last true ‘Renaissance Man’. Although employed as a Privy Councillor at the Duke of Weimar’s court, where he helped oversee major mining, road-building and irrigation projects, he also painted, directed plays, carried out research in anatomy, botany and optics – and still found time to produce masterpieces in every literary genre. His fourteen hundred Maxims and Reflections reveal some of his deepest thought on art, ethics, literature and natural science, but also his immediate reactions to books, chance encounters or his administrative work. Although variable in quality, the vast majority have a freshness and immediacy which vividly conjure up Goethe the man. They make an ideal introduction to one of the greatest of European writers.


Goethe on Art

Goethe on Art

Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1980-01-01

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780520039964

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