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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Selected Poetry
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArranged chronologically, David Luke's verse translations are set alongside the German originals to give a picture of Goethe's poetic development.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Author: Jeremy Adler
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2020-03-16
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1789142539
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis new critical biography provides a complete picture of German novelist, playwright, and poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Offering fresh, thought-provoking interpretations of all Goethe’s major works, including novels such as The Sorrows of Young Werther and The Elective Affinities, plays such as Egmont and Iphigenia in Tauris, and Goethe’s greatest work, Faust, Jeremy Adler also provides many original readings of Goethe’s poetry, beginning with the poems written in his early youth. Alongside Goethe’s work, Adler analyzes the incidents of his life, including his love affairs and his meetings with the luminaries of his age, such as Napoleon Bonaparte. Uniquely, Adler also shows how Goethe’s encyclopedic interest in literature, science, philosophy, law, and many other fields became important for a wide range of later scientists and thinkers. Among the figures he influenced were Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein, Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud, Émile Durkheim and Susan Sontag. Goethe has often been called the last Renaissance man. This biography shows that Goethe was in fact the first of the moderns—a maker of modernity.
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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DOWNLOAD EBOOKContains 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
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2018-06-12
Total Pages: 1051
ISBN-13: 0691181047
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published by Wordsworth Editions 1999 and 2007. First published by Princeton University Press in 2016.
Goethe: Life as a Work of Art
Author: Rüdiger Safranski
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
Published: 2017-05-16
Total Pages: 405
ISBN-13: 0871404915
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Selection Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Economist and Kirkus Reviews This “splendid biography” (Wall Street Journal) of Goethe presents his life and work as an essential touchstone for the modern age. A masterful intellectual portrait, Goethe: Life as a Work of Art is celebrated as the seminal twenty-first-century biography of the writer considered to be the Shakespeare of German literature. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), a remarkably prolific poet, playwright, novelist, and—as Rüdiger Safranksi emphasizes—a statesman and naturalist, first awakened not only a burgeoning German nation but the European continent with his electrifying novel The Sorrows of Young Werther. Safranski has scoured Goethe’s entire oeuvre, relying exclusively on primary sources, including his correspondence with contemporaries, to produce a “fresh and authentic” (Economist) portrait of the avatar of the Romantic era. Skillfully blending “artistic analysis with swift, sharp renderings” of the great political and intellectual figures Goethe encountered, “[Safranski’s] portrait of the prolific genius leaves the reader with lasting awe, even envy” of a monumental legacy (The New Yorker). As Safranski ultimately shows, Goethe’s greatest creation, even in comparison to his masterpiece Faust, was his own life.
Elective Affinities
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher:
Published: 1872
Total Pages: 342
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Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher:
Published: 1838
Total Pages: 306
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKWest-Eastern Divan
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher: Gingko Library
Published: 2019-10-15
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 1909942413
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1814, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe read the poems of the great fourteenth-century Persian poet Hafiz in a newly published translation by Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall. For Goethe, the book was a revelation. He felt a deep connection with Hafiz and Persian poetic traditions, and was immediately inspired to create his own West-Eastern Divan as a lyrical conversation between the poetry and history of his native Germany and that of Persia. The resulting collection engages with the idea of the other and unearths lyrical connections between cultures. The West-Eastern Divan is one of the world’s great works of literature, an inspired masterpiece, and a poetic linking of European and Persian traditions. This new bilingual edition expertly presents the wit, intelligence, humor, and technical mastery of the poetry in Goethe’s Divan. In order to preserve the work’s original power, Eric Ormsby has created this translation in clear contemporary prose rather than in rhymed verse, which tends to obscure the works sharpness. This edition is also accompanied by explanatory notes of the verse in German and in English and a translation of Goethe’s own commentary, the “Notes and Essays for a Better Understanding of the West-Eastern Divan.” This edition not only bring this classic collection to English-language readers, but also, at a time of renewed Western unease about the other, to open up the rich cultural world of Islam.
Selected Poetry
Author: Goethe
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2005-04-28
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0141912200
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'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.
