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Werke - 14. Band (Paperback)
Goethe Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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First published in German in 1810, this detailed volume was
translated from the German by Charles Lock Eastlake and, in six
parts, examines every aspect of Goethe's theory of colours,
including psychological colours, chemical colours, the moral effect
of colour, minerals, plants, insects, mammals and a multitude of
further subjects.
First published in German in 1810, this detailed volume was
translated from the German by Charles Lock Eastlake and, in six
parts, examines every aspect of Goethe's theory of colours,
including psychological colours, chemical colours, the moral effect
of colour, minerals, plants, insects, mammals and a multitude of
further subjects.
In 1814, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe read the poems of the great
fourteenth-century Persian poet Hafiz in a newly published
translation by Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall. For Goethe, the book
was a revelation. He felt a deep connection with Hafiz and Persian
poetic traditions, and was immediately inspired to create his own
West-Eastern Divan as a lyrical conversation between the poetry and
history of his native Germany and that of Persia. The resulting
collection engages with the idea of the other and unearths lyrical
connections between cultures. The West-Eastern Divan is one of the
world's great works of literature, an inspired masterpiece, and a
poetic linking of European and Persian traditions. This new
bilingual edition expertly presents the wit, intelligence, humor,
and technical mastery of the poetry in Goethe's Divan. In order to
preserve the work's original power, Eric Ormsby has created this
translation in clear contemporary prose rather than in rhymed
verse, which tends to obscure the works sharpness. This edition is
also accompanied by explanatory notes of the verse in German and in
English and a translation of Goethe's own commentary, the "Notes
and Essays for a Better Understanding of the West-Eastern Divan."
This edition not only bring this classic collection to
English-language readers, but also, at a time of renewed Western
unease about the other, to open up the rich cultural world of
Islam.
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Faust (Paperback, Second Edition)
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe; Edited by Cyrus Hamlin; Translated by Walter Arndt
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This edition presents Parts I and II complete. Cyrus Hamlin
provides essential supporting material for this difficult text, and
his Interpretive Notes have been expanded and reset in larger,
easy-to-read type. "Comments by Contemporaries" includes short
pieces by Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Carlyle, and
Wilhelm von Humboldt. "Modern Criticism"--comprised of ten essays
newly added to the Second Edition--presents the perspectives of
Stuart Atkins, Jaroslav Pelikan, Benjamin Bennett, Franco Moretti,
Friedrich A. Kittler, Neil M. Flax, Marc Shell, Jane Brown, Hans
Rudolf Vaget, and Marshall Berman. A Selected Bibliography is
included.
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The Essential Goethe (Paperback)
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe; Edited by Matthew Bell; Introduction by Matthew Bell
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The most comprehensive one-volume collection of Goethe's writings
ever published in English The Essential Goethe is the most
comprehensive and representative one-volume collection of Goethe's
writings ever published in English. It provides English-language
readers easier access than ever before to the widest range of work
by one of the greatest writers in world history. Goethe's work as
playwright, poet, novelist, and autobiographer is fully
represented. In addition to the works for which he is most famous,
including Faust Part I and the lyric poems, the volume features
important literary works that are rarely published in
English-including the dramas Egmont, Iphigenia in Tauris, and
Torquato Tasso and the bildungsroman Wilhelm Meister's
Apprenticeship, a foundational work in the history of the novel.
The volume also offers a selection of Goethe's essays on the arts,
philosophy, and science, which give access to the thought of a
polymath unrivalled in the modern world. Primarily drawn from
Princeton's authoritative twelve-volume Goethe edition, the
translations are highly readable and reliable modern versions by
scholars of Goethe. The volume also features an extensive
introduction to Goethe's life and works by volume editor Matthew
Bell. Includes: Selected poems Four complete dramas: Faust Part I,
Egmont, Iphigenia in Tauris, and Torquato Tasso The complete novel
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship A selection from the travel
journal Italian Journey Selected essays on art and literature
Selected essays on philosophy and science An extensive introduction
to Goethe's life and works A chronology of Goethe's life and times
A note on the texts and translations
Los anos de aprendizaje de Wilhelm Meister constituye, por
antonomasia, la novela de formacion o bildungsroman. En esta obra,
compendio de todas las tendencias narrativas del siglo XVIII, el
autor ofrece un diagnostico de su epoca al intentar responder a una
pregunta: como se puede llegar a ser feliz?
One of the great classics of European literature, "Faust" is
Goethe's most complex and profound work. To tell the dramatic and
tragic story of one man's pact with the Devil in exchange for
knowledge and power, Goethe drew from an immense variety of
cultural and historical material, and a wealth of poetic and
theatrical traditions. What results is a tour de force illustrating
Goethe's own moral and artistic development, and a symbolic,
cautionary tale of Western humanity striving restlessly and
ruthlessly for progress.
Capturing the sense, poetic variety, and tonal range of the
German original in present-day English, Stuart Atkins's translation
presents the formal and rhythmic dexterity of "Faust" in all its
richness and beauty, without recourse to archaisms or interpretive
elaborations.
Featuring a new introduction by David Wellbery, this Princeton
Classics edition of "Faust" is the definitive English version of a
timeless masterpiece.
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Theory of Colours (Paperback, New Ed)
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe; Translated by Charles Lock Eastlake; Introduction by Deane B. Judd
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By closely following Goethe's explanations of the color phenomena,
the reader may become so divorced from the wavelength theory-Goethe
never even mentions it-that he may begin to think about color
theory relatively unhampered by prejudice, ancient or modern. By
the time Goethe's Theory of Colours appeared in 1810, the
wavelength theory of light and color had been firmly established.
To Goethe, the theory was the result of mistaking an incidental
result for an elemental principle. Far from pretending to a
knowledge of physics, he insisted that such knowledge was an actual
hindrance to understanding. He based his conclusions exclusively
upon exhaustive personal observation of the phenomena of color. Of
his own theory, Goethe was supremely confident: "From the
philosopher, we believe we merit thanks for having traced the
phenomena of colours to their first sources, to the circumstances
under which they appear and are, and beyond which no further
explanation respecting them is possible." Goethe's scientific
conclusions have, of course, long since been thoroughly demolished,
but the intelligent reader of today may enjoy this work on quite
different grounds: for the beauty and sweep of his conjectures
regarding the connection between color and philosophical ideas; for
an insight into early nineteenth-century beliefs and modes of
thought; and for the flavor of life in Europe just after the
American and French Revolutions. The book does not have to be
studied to be appreciated. Goethe's subjective theory of colors
permits him to speak most persuasively of color harmony and
aesthetics. In some readers these notions will evoke a positive
response on their merits. Others may regard them as pure fantasy,
but savor the grace and style of their exposition. The work may
also be read as an accurate guide to the study of color phenomena.
Goethe's conclusions have been repudiated, but no one quarrels with
his reporting of the facts to be observed. With simple
objects-vessels, prisms, lenses, and the like-the reader will be
led through a demonstration course not only in subjectively
produced colors, but also in the observable physical phenomena of
color. By closely following Goethe's explanations of the color
phenomena, the reader may become so divorced from the wavelength
theory-Goethe never even mentions it-that he may begin to think
about color theory relatively unhampered by prejudice, ancient or
modern.
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Erotic Poems (Paperback)
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe; Translated by David Luke; Introduction by Hans Rudolf Vaget
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`a world without love would be no world' Elegy II This bilingual
edition of Goethe's erotic poems contains the Roman Elegies (1789),
The Diary (1810), and a selection from the Venetian Epigrams of
1790. Editorial censorship has long obscured the true form and
content of the Elegies, which were inspired by Goethe's sexual
liberation in Italy and his love for the woman he took as his
unofficial wife on his return to Germany.They are here presented as
Goethe boldly conceived them together with the long-surpressed
narrative poem known as The Diary. Superficially the story of a
failed sexual adventure by a man of 60, at another level this is a
profound study of the psychology of desire and the nature of
fidelity, as well as being one of the most beautiful and
good-humoured poems in the German language. Completing the edition
is a selection from Goethe's more light-hearted and much censored
cycle of erotica, the Venetian Epigrams. David Luke's translations
do full justice to Goethe's aim of liberating German poetry and
restoring sexual love to its central position in human life. Hans
Vaget's fine introduction provides the background to these poems,
as well as showing some of the profound and little-known
connections between them. Johann Wolfgang Goethe was born in 1749,
the son of a well-to-do citizen of Frankfurt. In the early 1770's
he was the dominating figure of the German literary revival, his
tragic novel Werther bringing him international fame. In 1755 he
became a minister of state and director of the court theatre and in
the 1790's he and his younger contemporary Schiller were the joint
architects of Weimar Classicism, the central phase of German
literary culture. Faust, written at various stages of his life and
in a variety of styles, became a constantly enlarged repository of
his personal wisdom and his creative energies never ceased to take
new forms. In 1806 he married Christiane Vulpious, having lived
with her for eighteen years. He died in 1832. ABOUT THE SERIES: For
over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the
widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable
volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the
most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features,
including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful
notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further
study, and much more.
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German Refugees (Paperback)
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe; Translated by Mike Mitchell
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A family of German nobles have been forced from their home on the
left bank of the Rhine by the French Revolution. Their peace is
further disrupted by the arguments between the young Karl, a
supporter of the ideals of the revolution, and the other men. The
Baroness saves the day by suggesting they amuse each other by
telling stories.
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