The Essential Goethe
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-18104-2 (ISBN)
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
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) was one of the greatest writers of the German Romantic period. Matthew Bell is professor of German and comparative literature at King's College London. His books include Goethe’s Naturalistic Anthropology and Melancholia: The Western Malady.
Introduction vii
Chronology of Goethe's Life and Times xxxiii
Selected Poems 1
Egmont 41
Translated by Michael Hamburger
Iphigenia in Tauris 107
Translated by David Luke
Torquato Tasso 163
Translated by Michael Hamburger
Faust. A Tragedy 249
Translated by John R. Williams
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship 371
Italian Journey: Part One 751
On Literature and Art 867
On German Architecture (1772) 867
Shakespeare: A Tribute (1771) 872
Simple Imitation, Manner, Style (1789) 875
Response to a Literary Rabble-Rouser (1795) 878
Winckelmann and His Age (1805) 881
Myron's Cow (1818) 903
On World Literature 908
On Philosophy and Science 913
On Granite (1784) 913
A Study Based on Spinoza (c. 1785) 916
The Metamorphosis of Plants (1790) 917
Toward a General Comparative Theory (1790-94) 937
The Experiment as Mediator between Subject and Object (1792) 940
The Extent to Which the Idea "Beauty Is Perfection in Combination with Freedom" May Be Applied to Living Organisms (c. 1794) 947
Observation on Morphology in General (c. 1795) 948
Polarity (c. 1799) 951
From Theory of Color (1791-1807) 952
Part Five: Relationship to Other Fields 952
Part Six: Sensory-Moral Effect of Color 960
From On Morphology (1807-17) 977
The Enterprise Justified 977
The Purpose Set Forth 978
The Content Prefaced 981
The Influence of Modern Philosophy (1817) 983
Colors in the Sky (1817-20) 986
Problems (1823) 987
Excerpt from "Toward a Theory of Weather" (1825) 988
Analysis and Synthesis (c. 1829) 993
A More Intense Chemical Activity in Primordial Matter (1826) 995
Excerpt from "The Spiral Tendency in Vegetation" (1829-31) 995
Selections from Maxims and Reflections 998
Erscheinungsdatum | 12.06.2018 |
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Einführung | Matthew Bell |
Zusatzinfo | 1 halftone. 1 table. |
Verlagsort | New Jersey |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton |
Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 0-691-18104-7 / 0691181047 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-691-18104-2 / 9780691181042 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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