The biographer of a truly world-historical writer finds his work weighted with a double burden. He must trace how his subject’s private passions and follies gave rise to original art, and he must show ...
1811-1812. A rich autumn of grape harvesting, of golden forests and red sunset skies. The last but two symphonies and the last violin sonata. Lovely declining days and latter-day loves. And the ...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), German writer, circa 1800. By Karl Joseph von Stieler (1781-1858). (Photo by Roger Viollet via Getty Images) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) is the ...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was one of those rare people who stood out in his time and changed not only literature but also ...
Goethe: His Faustian Life; By A.N. Wilson; Bloomsbury; 416 pp., $35.00 Yet, as theologian Natalie K. Watson recently put it in the Church Times, a British publication, Goethe is likely to be “the ...
IN reading Grimm’s Life and Times of Goethe 1 we have wondered anew at that defect of the great man’s nature which renders him, to us, an almost incomprehensible, half-human being, — we mean the ...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 – 1832), poet, novelist, dramatist, philosopher, naturalist and physicist, was a towering figure in German and world culture. His major works, including Götz von ...
The Neighborhood Interpretive Center is a hyperlocal neighborhood initiative of the Goethe-Institut in the diverse MacArthur Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, launched in 2021. Each fall, there is an ...