The Life and Genius of Goethe
Author : Franklin Benjamin Sanborn
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Page : 496 pages
File Size : 17,37 MB
Release : 1886
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Author : Franklin Benjamin Sanborn
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Page : 496 pages
File Size : 17,37 MB
Release : 1886
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Author : Roderick Cavaliero
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,1 MB
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781350239760
Before unification, Germany was a loose collection of variously sovereign principalities, nurtured on deep thought, fine music and hard rye bread. It was known across Europe for the plentiful supply of consorts to be found among its abundant royalty, but the language and culture was largely incomprehensible to those outside its lands. In the long eighteenth and nineteenth centuries- between the end of the Thirty Years War in 1648 and unification under Bismarck in 1871 - Germany became the land of philosophers, poets, writers and composers. This particularly German cultural movement was able to survive the avalanche of Napoleonic conquest and exploitation and its impact was gradually felt far beyond Germany's borders. In this book, Roderick Cavaliero provides a fascinating overview of Germany's cultural zenith in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He considers the work of Germany's own artistic exports - the literature of Goethe and Grimm, the music of Wagner, Schumann, Mendelssohn and Bach and the philosophy of Schiller and Kant - as well as the impact of Germany on foreign visitors from Coleridge to Thackeray and from Byron to Disraeli. Providing a comprehensive and highly-readable account of Germany's cultural life from Frederick the Great to Bismarck, 'Genius, Power and Magic' is fascinating reading for anyone interested in European history and cultural history.
Author : Rüdiger Safranski
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 45,79 MB
Release : 2017-05-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0871404915
A 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.
Author : John Armstrong
Publisher : Allan Lane
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 38,46 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is often remembered only as a figure of literary genius, with little relevance to the way we live today. Yet Goethe was driven by much more than the desire for literary success- he wanted (much the same as us) to live life well. In Love, Life, Goethe, John Armstrong subtly and imaginatively explores the ways that we can learn from Goethe, whether in love, suffering, friendship or family. At the centre of this project is happiness- in an imperfect world, how can we live well with what we have, and accept what we haven't? From our lives at home, to our relationships, the politicians we choose, and our relationship with money, John Armstrong explores the main themes of our lives through the life of Goethe, and helps us learn how to live.
Author : George Henry Lewes
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Page : 408 pages
File Size : 30,20 MB
Release : 1858
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Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 1748 pages
File Size : 43,30 MB
Release : 2019-06-03
Category : Literary Collections
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Musaicum Books presents to you a meticulously edited Goethe collection. This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Content: 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)
Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Page : 890 pages
File Size : 22,36 MB
Release : 1887
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Author : George Henry Lewes
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Page : 794 pages
File Size : 35,23 MB
Release : 1882
Category : Authors, German
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Author : G. H. Lewes
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Page : 468 pages
File Size : 43,99 MB
Release : 1856
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Author : George Henry Lewes
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 24,53 MB
Release : 2024-01-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3375176627
Reprint of the original, first published in 1856.