Description: This is a probing look a the life, poetry, drama, prose and verse, narratives and scientific work of Johan Wolfgang von Goethe. While examining Goethe's major works, John R. Williams also looks at his lesser known literary outputs such as epigrams, aphorisms, satires, libretti and masquerades, as well as dramatic and narrative fragments. This volume provides vivid accounts of Goethe's wide range of public activities including his relations with the leading public figures of the day and his influence on contemporary culture. Williams uncovers the great variety of Goethe's character, his occasionally scurrilous humour and exuberance and his characteristic ironic ambivalence.

The Life of Goethe offers English translations of all German quotations given in the ten and an extensive bibliography details a wide selection of Goethe's works in English translation.

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