Goethe The Poet And The Age

Author : Nicholas Boyle
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Authors, German
ISBN : 0192829815

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Goethe by Nicholas Boyle Pdf

The author of Faust, the best-selling sentimental novel The Sorrows of Young Werther, of exquisite lyric poetry (set to music by Schubert and Mozart), and of a bewildering variety of other plays, novels, poems, and treatises, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe also excelled as an administrator in thecabinet of Carl August, Duke of Saxe-Weimar. Considered by Nietzsche to have been 'not just a good and great man, but an entire culture', Goethe was as vital a part of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century German social and political life, as he was its cultural nucleus. However, as this perceptive biography shows, the originality ofhis art lay in his complex distance from his times.

Author : Nicholas Boyle
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 996 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Authors, German
ISBN : 0199257515

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Goethe: the Poet and the Age by Nicholas Boyle Pdf

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.

Author : Nicholas Boyle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 807 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Authors, German
ISBN : 0192829815

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Goethe by Nicholas Boyle Pdf

Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 1256 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2000-05-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015049673414

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Selected Works of Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Pdf

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.

Author : Nicholas Boyle
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 998 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Authors, German
ISBN : 0198158696

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Goethe: Revolution and renunciation (1790-1803) by Nicholas Boyle Pdf

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.

Author : Rüdiger Safranski
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780871404916

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Goethe: Life as a Work of Art by Rüdiger Safranski Pdf

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.

Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 081011643X

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Selected Poems by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Pdf

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.

Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,John Whaley
Publisher : Everyman Paperback Classics
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0460882120

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Poems - Goethe by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,John Whaley Pdf

A collection of the poetry of Johann Wolfgang Goethe, the pre-eminent figure of German literature, as well as Germany's greatest lyric poet.

Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,Stanley Appelbaum
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0486406679

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103 Great Poems by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,Stanley Appelbaum Pdf

Rich selection of the poet's verse—from his earliest, "An den Schlaf," written at 18, to his last great poem, "Verdächtnis," written at 80. English translations by Stanley Appelbaum.

Author : Jeremy Adler
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781789142532

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe by Jeremy Adler Pdf

This 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.

Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1921
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045045718

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Goethe's Literary Essays by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Pdf

Author : John R. Williams
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Authors, German
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Life of Goethe by John R. Williams Pdf

Author : Rainer Matthias Holm-Hadulla
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429860997

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Goethe’s Path to Creativity by Rainer Matthias Holm-Hadulla Pdf

Goethe’s Path to Creativity provides a comprehensive psycho-biography of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, a giant of modern German and European literary, political, and scientific history. The book brings this influential work by Rainer Matthias Holm-Hadulla to the English language for the first time in a newly elaborated edition. Goethe’s path to creativity was difficult and beset by a multitude of crises, beginning with his birth, which was so difficult that he was initially not thought to have survived it, and ending with an infatuation that left him, at the age of 74, toying with the same kind of suicidal thoughts he had entertained as a 20-year-old. Throughout his long life, he suffered bitter disappointments and was subject to severe mood swings. Despite being a gifted child, a widely recognized poet, and an influential scientist and politician, he spent his entire life loving and suffering; nonetheless, he had the exceptional ability to endure emotional pain and to transform his sufferings creatively. The way in which he mined his passions for creative impulses continues to inspire modern readers. Readers can apply the lessons they have learned from his life and use Goethe’s strategies for their own creative art of living. Goethe’s Path to Creativity: A Psycho-Biography of the Eminent Politician, Scientist and Poet will be of great interest to all engaged in the fields of creativity, literature, psychoanalysis, psychology, psychotherapy, and personal growth.

Author : Karl Viëtor
Publisher : Russell & Russell Publishers
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004509472

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Goethe, the Poet by Karl Viëtor Pdf

Author : Richard Friedenthal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781351517058

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Goethe by Richard Friedenthal Pdf

The study of Goethe's life is a task that each generation must undertake anew. Thus writes Richard Friedenthal, author of this rich biography. Spanning eight momentous decades of war, revolution, and social upheaval, Goethe's life reveals itself as one of conflict and dynamic development, of inner contradiction and unceasing creativity.As novelist, dramatist, and poet, Goethe produced epochal works of fiery romanticism, only later to dedicate himself to a classical ideal of purity and measure. His superb love lyrics immortalize a succession of ardent relationships; yet, in him too, was a strain of frigid egotism mingled with an Olympian detachment. The new introduction serves to place in perspective this outstanding work on the German master.He was capable of tirelessly exploring the external world as physiologist, geologist, and botanist. He was equally capable of plunging to the depths of profound subjective analysis. A minister of state, a model of distinguished probity, Goethe nonetheless lived a life of passionate seeking, eternally questioning official values. Nothing perhaps better sums up this vast complexity than his lifelong work, Faust, the supreme dramatization of man's quest on earth.