Goethe's career was an unusually long and productive one: he became
a literary celebrity in the 1770s and remained so until his death
in 1832. The distinguishing feature of his last works is their
self-consciousness, their preoccupation both with the business of
writing and with personal development. In the first cross-genre
study of this period of Goethe's work, Charlotte Lee traces the
theme in his last major poems and autobiographical writings, before
turning to the two 'giants', 'Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre' and
'Faust II'. All these works share a tendency to allude subtly to
earlier moments from Goethe's own literary output, but to fashion
them into writing which is quite new - even though (or perhaps
because) he himself is old. This book seeks to understand the
unique perspective of one nearing the end of a long life.
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