Goethe's Poetry for Occasions

Goethe's Poetry for Occasions
Author: Ernst M. Oppenheimer
Publisher: [Toronto ; Buffalo] : University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 1974
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

Goethe's Poetry and the Philosophy of Nature

Goethe's Poetry and the Philosophy of Nature
Author: Regina Sachers
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2017-10-23
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 135156529X

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, philosophy and theology come under increasing pressure owing to the emergence of the modern sciences. The collection Gott und Welt is Goethe's poetic contribution to this conflict, in which an alternative to orthodox Christianity was being sought. Following the collection's various stages of composition and publication, this study offers new readings of some of Goethe's best known poems: 'Die Metamorphose der Pflanzen', 'Dauer im Wechsel', 'Urworte. Orphisch' and 'Wiederfinden'. Sachers shows that Gott und Welt is the long poem on nature which Goethe attempted to write for the last third of his life. As such it represents Goethe's unique answers to the intellectual challenges posed by the dawning age of science. Regina Sachers is Lecturer in German at Exeter College, Oxford.

Conversations With Eckermann: Being Appreciations and Criticisms On Many Subjects

Conversations With Eckermann: Being Appreciations and Criticisms On Many Subjects
Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-10-27
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781017373493

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Goethe's Poems

Goethe's Poems
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher:
Total Pages: 322
Release: 1899
Genre: German poetry
ISBN:

Goethe: Selected Poems

Goethe: Selected Poems
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1999-07-22
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN:

Goethe is considered as one of the greatest and most accessible of the romantic poets from Germany. The insights and occasions of his poems are common human ground. This selection gives a sampling from work that ranged over many themes.

The Poetics of the Occasion

The Poetics of the Occasion
Author: Marian Zwerling Sugano
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 1992
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780804719469

"Although Mallarme is commonly viewed as the high priest of the autonomous work of art, by far the bulk of his actual poetic writing was occasional verse. With few exceptions the works written after 1873 manifest a reinvestment in the world subsequent to the metaphysical crises of the 1860's. In addition to the "Tombeaux," the toasts, and certain of the "Eventails," Mallarme composed the Vers de circonstance, more than 450 quatrains and distichs inscribed on envelopes, postcards, calling cards, Easter eggs, small stones, photographs, and jugs of Calvados. This is the first comprehensive reading and analysis of the neglected late poetry, heretofore dismissed as of marginal interest." "This book has a dual purpose. By exploring the occasional verse of Mallarme, which itself thematizes the problematics of the occasion, the author seeks to rehabilitate such writing for critical study. She does this not by proclaiming its high seriousness, but by insisting on its casual, amenable, public nature. Unlike previous critics, who have often apologized for straying into the fringes of the canon, the author delights in the marginal, insisting that in a poetics of the occasion, traditional oppositions such as center/margin become skewed and break down." "The author's second purpose is to come to a better understanding of Mallarme in light of what he actually wrote, rather than the work projected in his correspondence and prose articles, which has claimed so much critical attention. Each of the chapters of the book highlights one aspect of occasional poetry through an investigation of representative texts, both canonical and occasional. The author also discusses the relationship between Mallarme's poetics and the plastic arts, tracing the changing conception of the representation of the monument from the nineteenth to the twentieth century, as well as the correspondences between the more radical aspects of Mallarme's practice of writing and the contemporary arts." "Far more than a study of a single writer, this book is the first to propose a pragmatic definition of occasional literature, to undertake a broad study of the problem of occasion in literature, and to trace the historical trajectory of occasional writing as a specific discourse. The book is illustrated with 27 halftones."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Goethe's Works

Goethe's Works
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher:
Total Pages: 884
Release: 1883
Genre:
ISBN:

Goethe

Goethe
Author: Nicholas Boyle
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 852
Release: 1992
Genre: Authors, German
ISBN: 9780192829818

The author of Faust, the best-selling sentimental novel The Sorrows of Young Werther, of exquisite lyric poetry (set to music by Schubert and Mozart), and of a bewildering variety of other plays, novels, poems, and treatises, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe also excelled as an administrator in thecabinet of Carl August, Duke of Saxe-Weimar. Considered by Nietzsche to have been 'not just a good and great man, but an entire culture', Goethe was as vital a part of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century German social and political life, as he was its cultural nucleus. However, as this perceptive biography shows, the originality ofhis art lay in his complex distance from his times.