The Life of Goethe

Цена 45.94 - 56.95 USD

EAN/UPC/ISBN Code 9780631231738

Брэнд Blackwell Publ

Автор

Страниц 352

Год выпуска 2001

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is Germany?s most celebrated, prolific and versatile writer. He established a major European reputation and profoundly influenced his contemporaries and literary successors, not least among them the British Romantic writers Coleridge, Scott, and Byron. Goethe?s life spanned a long period of profound change in German and European history. This book, by the author of a critically acclaimed study of Goethe?s Faust , sets Goethe?s creative work in the context of his biography and of the literary and political movements of his time. It contains chapters on his life, his poetry, drama, prose and verse narratives, and on his scientific work. It is a study not only of his major works, but also of his less well known literary output: epigrams, aphorisms, satires, libretti, masquerades, dramatic and narrative fragments. John R. Williams gives an account of Goethe?s wide range of public activities as a minister of the Duchy of Sachsen–Weimar, his relations...