Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
81) Selected poems
Author
Series
Goethe edition ; 1
Publisher
Shuhrkamp/Insel Publishers Boston
Pub. Date
[1983]
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"By the end of the nineteenth century, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was the world's most celebrated poet, novelist, critic and thinker. This book covers the last nine years of his life, partially spent having conversations with the young Johann Eckermann, who was thirty-one to Goethe's seventy-four, and who dedicated this time to recording Goethe's thoughts, ideas, observations and witticisms. The result is Conversations with Goethe, the most direct...
Author
Publisher
F. Ungar Pub. Co
Pub. Date
[1964]
Language
English
Description
A collection of Goethe's prose, both literary and scientific, published during his lifetime and posthumously. Also included are portions of his diaries, letters and articulations. Topics include: religion, nature, science and philosophy, the social sphere, the moral sphere, art, and the body politic.
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
Faust is a classic of world literature, yet until now no English rendition of Goethe's philosophical and poetic drama has been able to capture its life, satire, irony, humor, and tragedy. Award-winning translator and critic Martin Greenberg here presents the first faithful, readable, and elegantly written version of Geothe's masterpiece available in English.
89) Selected works: including The sorrows of young Werther, Elective affinities, Italian journey, Faust
Author
Series
Everyman's library ; no. 246
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Contains a brief biography of Goethe, a collection of some of his best-known works, and a sampling of his personal correspondence. "One of the towering figures of world literature, Goethe has never held quite as prominent a place in the English-speaking world as he deserves. This collection of his four major works, together with a selection of his finest letters and poems, shows that he is not only one of the very greatest European writers: he is...
Author
Series
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
[1976]
Language
English
Description
This edition includes Parts I and II complete. The backgrounds include the medieval Chapbook, the puppet play, and a surviving fragment of G.E. Lessing's Faust play. The author's plans and sketches, and a rich selection of his letters and comments to Eckermann, trace Goethe's lifelong involvement in the work, as does an analytical table showing the phases of composition. The contemporary reactions show how rapidly Faust came to be seen as a quintessential...
Author
Series
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A complete annotated translation of Goethe's "Faust," plus extensive interpretive notes, "Faust" illustrations and other visual sources used by Goethe, several pieces of Goethe's correspondence and commentary, eleven contemporary reviews by well-known writers, and ten modern pieces of criticism; also includes a Goethe chronology and selected bibliography.
99) Faust I & II
Author
Series
Works ; 2
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English