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This book examines self-consciousness and very-lateness, those two
intimately related phenomena, tracing the theme in Goethe's last
major poems and autobiographical writings, before turning to the
two 'giants', 'Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre' and 'Faust II'.
A greatest-hits selection from some of the most popular poets of the Romantic movement, including Goethe, Schiller, Schlegel, and Heine, in a gorgeously jacketed small hardcover.
Unlike the more earnest English Romantic poets, followers of the Romantic movement in Germany valued wit and humor along with beauty. Admiration for nature is also prominent in their poetry, and in particular the dramatic forests which still cover large areas of Germany. Love and death crop up repeatedly as themes in such famous works as Goethe’s “Elf King” and Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde. Characters from myth and folklore abound—most famously Lorelei, an enchantress who is associated with the rock of the same name on the bank of the Rhine, who is featured in several poems in this volume. Also gathered here are such favorites as Hölderlin’s “Bread and Wine,” Schiller’s “The Visit of the Gods,” Eichendorff’s “Nocturne,” and Heine’s “The Magic Month of May,” along with works by the most famous women writers of the Romantic era, including Karoline von Günderrode and Sophie Mereau.
Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.
Title: A Few Days in Belgium and Holland. An idle book for an idle
hour.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe
British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It
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historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF EUROPE
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development of Western civilisation to the modern age. Highlights
include the development of language, political and educational
systems, philosophy, science, and the arts. The selection documents
periods of civil war, migration, shifts in power, Muslim expansion
into Central Europe, complex feudal loyalties, the aristocracy of
new nations, and European expansion into the New World. ++++The
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British Library Lees, Lady Maria Charlotte; 1872. 8 . 10271.bbb.18.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
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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