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• 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.
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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.
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• Fairest faust
• A new translation of Goethe's Faust
• Preface
• Introduction
• Dedication
• Prelude in the theater
• Prologue in heaven
• First part of the tragedy
• The second part of the tragedy in five acts.

"A poet, playwright, novelist, memoirist, and aphorist, Goethe was the German equivalent of Dante plus Shakespeare, a multifaceted universal genius. He put everything he had into this version of the famous myth of Faust, the man who sold his soul to the devil for worldly fame and riches. People face such choices every day - in this volume, Prof. Thomas Wayne presents the story in a contemporary voice."-- Provided by publisher.

"Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, although best known for his literary work, was also a keen and outspoken natural scientist. In the second polemic part of Zur Farbenlehre (Theory of Colours), for example, Goethe attacked Isaac Newton's ground-breaking revelation that light is heterogeneous and not immutable, as was previously thought. This polemic was unanimously rejected by the physicists of the day, and has often been omitted from compendia of Goethe's works. Indeed, although Goethe repeated all of Newton's key experiments, he was never able to achieve the same results. Many reasons have been proposed for this, ranging from the psychological — such as a blind hatred of Newtonism, self-deceit and paranoid psychosis — to accusations of incapability — Goethe simply did not understand the experiments. Yet Goethe was never to be dissuaded from this passionate conviction. This translation of Goethe's second polemic, published for the first time in English, makes it clear that Goethe did understand the thrust of Newton's logic. It demonstrates that Goethe's resistance to Newton's theory stemmed from something quite different; his pantheism — the belief in the spiritual nature of light. This prevented him from allowing himself to think of light in physical terms and accepting that it is anything other than simple, immutable, and unknowable. This important new translation will be useful to natural scientists, historians, philosophers and theologians alike and will delight anyone hoping to add a further layer of nuance to Goethe's complex portrait."--Provided by publisher.

• 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.
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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.
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• Cover
• Title
• Contents
• Copyright
• Goethe's Life and Work
• I LOVE AND SOLITUDE
• To Sleep
• By the Riverside
• May Song
• Hail and Farewell
• The King in Thule
• Bonding Song
• Autumnal Feeling
• The Hunter's Evening Song
• The Wanderer's Night Song (I)
• Restless Love
• To the Moon
• The Elf-King
• Night Thoughts
• The Harpist (I)
• The Harpist (II)
• The Harpist (III)
• Ballad of the Harpist
• Mignon (I)
• Mignon (II)
• Mignon (III)
• The Spinster
• My Love Is Near
• The Coy Shepherdess
• The Shepherd
• The Repentant Shepherdess
• The Mountain Castle
• Your Presence
• The Lost Ring
• West Wind
• The Presence of the Past
• A Phenomenon
• The Chestnut Tree
• Behramgur
• Gingko Biloba
• Suleika
• The Bridegroom
• To the Rising Full Moon
• II GODS AND HUMANS
• A Song about Mohammed
• Prometheus
• Ganymede
• The Feeling of Humanity
• Winter Journey in the Harz Mountains
• Song of the Spirits above the Waters
• Human Limits
• The Divine
• The Song of the Fates
• Permanence within Change
• Longing
• Memorial
• Prooemion
• Orphic Words
• Symbolum
• Antepirrhema
• Talismans
• The Wanderer's Equanimity
• Saint Nepomuk's Eve
• One and All
• Spirit Hovering over the Earth
• All of the stars
• When, in infinity
• Legacy
• From Faust, Part Two, Final Scene
• III NATURE AND ART
• Artist's Evening Song
• On the Lake
• Hope
• My Goddess
• The Wanderer's Night Song (II)
• Anacreon's Grave
• Flat Calm
• Fortunate Voyage
• Into the Distance
• Nature and Art
• The Sonnet
• Humility
• Song and Form
• Unlimited
• Epirrhema
• Parabasis
• Schiller's Remains
• Twilight
• At Night
• Always and Everywhere
• I like full rhyme
• Once you are clear
• Our earnest efforts
• Something is speaking
• Poems are like stained-glass windows
• IV WIT AND WISDOM
• Originality.

• Among the princes of Germany
• I cannot divide my life
• Ownership
• The demagogue
• The powerful
• "Aren't we right to deceive the people?
• Princes often imprint
• A student told me
• When I heard them yelling
• They really annoy me
• Someone said
• Art, Science, Religion
• We all see God
• Whoever serves the public
• Age
• The Years
• Rumi Speaks
• "Tell me how you live."
• Who is happiest?
• Time spent looking for cures
• Every event
• So, what do you consider sin?
• You cannot cure your oddities
• Always strive for the whole
• Regardless of age
• No one likes giving
• Worries
• You ask if I mean all I say
• "Whom should we believe?"
• If you play at life
• Zeus, why
• Forget about transiency
• Do you know how to find the joy of life?
• Yes, you're on the right track
• You want the comfort of certainty!
• Let no one resemble another
• Rulers and common people
• Every life is worth living
• Guidelines for Life
• Notes on Proper Names and Greek Titles
• About the translator
• PRAISE FOR GRAHAM GOOD'S RILKE'S LATE POETRY
• Back Cover.

Why read Goethe's poetry today? Ours is an age which prizes both individual self-development and cultural diversity. Goethe (1749-1832) was the first major poet to show how these two values could be combined. Goethe, who coined the term "world literature, " explored a wide variety of subject matter, from love and creativity, to nature and religion. For Goethe life is a process with no final answers: "All meaning is only asking." This selection of Goethe's poetry aims to represent its formal and thematic variety in readable verse translations.

A classic of world literature, Goethe's Faust is a philosophical and poetic drama full of satire, irony, humor, and tragedy. Martin Greenberg re-creates not only the text's varied meter and rhyme but also its diverse tones and styles-dramatic and lyrical, reflective and farcical, pathetic and coarse, colloquial and soaring. His rendition of Faust is the first faithful, readable, and elegantly written translation of Goethe's masterpiece available in English. At last, the Greenberg Faust is available in a single volume, together with a thoroughly updated translation, preface, and notes. "Greenberg has accomplished a magnificent literary feat. He has taken a great German work, until now all but inaccessible to English readers, and made it into a sparkling English poem, full of verve and wit. Greenberg's translation lives; it is done in a modern idiom but with respect for the original text; I found it a joy to read."-Irving Howe (on the earlier edition).
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Goethe's influential text, newly illustrated with stunning color photographs. The Metamorphosis of Plants, published in 1790, was Goethe's first major attempt to describe what he called in a letter to a friend "the truth about the how of the organism." Inspired by the diversity of flora he found on a journey to Italy, Goethe sought a unity of form in diverse structures. He came to see in the leaf the germ of a plant's metamorphosis-"the true Proteus who can hide or reveal himself in all vegetal forms"-from the root and stem leaves to the calyx and corolla, to pistil and stamens. With this short book-123 numbered paragraphs, in the manner of the great botanist Linnaeus-Goethe aimed to tell the story of botanical forms in process, to present, in effect, a motion picture of the metamorphosis of plants. This MIT Press edition of The Metamorphosis of Plants illustrates Goethe's text (in an English translation by Douglas Miller) with a series of stunning and starkly beautiful color photographs as well as numerous line drawings. It is the most completely and colorfully illustrated edition of Goethe's book ever published. It demonstrates vividly Goethe's ideas of transformation and interdependence, as well as the systematic use of imagination in scientific research-which influenced thinkers ranging from Darwin to Thoreau and has much to teach us today about our relationship with nature.
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• Physiological colours
• Physical colours
• Chemical colours
• General characteristics
• Relation to other pursuits
• Effect of colour with reference to moral associations.

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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