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• FROM MY LIFE: POETRY AND TRUTH, PART FOUR 519 Book Sixteen 522 Book Seventeen 535 Book Eighteen 555 Book Nineteen 576 Book Twenty 594 CAMPAIGN IN FRANCE
• 1792. SIEGE OF MAINZ 607 Introduction 609 Campaign in France 1792 618 Siege of Mainz 749 NOTES 777 From My Life: Poetry and Truth 779 Part Four 779 Campaign in France 1792 784 Siege of Mainz 798.
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Part of an exhaustive series which provides English translations of a representative proportion of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's vast body of work, this volume contains his recollections of his childhood, his education and the creation and reception of his early works.
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Campaign in France 1792 -Siege of Mainz, Goethe's narrative of the unsuccessful campaign and the siege, has become a classic text for the history of Franco-German relations during the revolutionary period. A product of recollection, historical hindsight, and considerable study of other published sources, it is a fascinating document of the military catastrophe exposing the decline of Prussian power since the death of Frederick II, which eventually culminated in Napoleon's devastating 1806 victory at Jena and Auerstedt.
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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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• 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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'I have so much and my feeling for her devours everything, I have so much and without her everything is nothing.' The Sorrows of Young Werther propelled Goethe to instant fame when it first appeared in 1774. Goethe drew on his own unhappy experiences to tell the story of Werther, a young man tormented by his love for Lotte, a tender-hearted girl who is promised to someone else. Overwhelmed by his feelings, Werther begins to see only one way to escape from his anguish. Goethe's story of a sensitive young artist alienated from society channelled the Romantic sensibility of the day and led to a wave of imitations. Werther's searching introspection and the passionate intensity with which he bares his soul have an immediacy that is all the more powerful for being expressed in letters; charting the course of his emotions, they give added drama to the unfolding account. David Constantine's new translation captures the novel's lyric clarity, and his introduction and notes illuminate Goethe's achievement. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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The Greek fleet bound for Troy is becalmed. For the sake of a wind, Agamemnon, leader of the Greek forces, is persuaded that he must sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia. But as the priest raises his knife to slit the child's throat, the goddess Diana spirits her away. Clytemnestra, Agamemnon's wife, believing her beloved daughter to be dead, slays her husband in revenge on hisreturn from the Trojan wars. Their son, Orestes, avenges his father's death by killing his mother. Now, years later, as Iphigenia, a prisoner of the temple of Diana, looks across the sea to Greece, longing to return home, her brother Orestes arrives...
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