The Flight to Italy: Diary and Selected Letters

The Flight to Italy: Diary and Selected Letters - Paperback

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The Flight to Italy: Diary and Selected Letters - Paperback

The Flight to Italy: Diary and Selected Letters - Paperback

by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe , Terence James Reed
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'At three in the morning I crept out of Carlsbad, they wouldn't have let me go if I hadn't. I wasn't going to be stopped, for it was time.'

This is the authentic day-to-day record never before translated, of the first eight weeks of freedom as Germany's greatest poet heads for the Italy he has been yearning to see since childhood. Leaving behind the growing frustrations of administrative work, a difficult love-affair, and lack of time to write, he discovers himself again as a sensuous being and an artist. His fresh and spontaneous notes, sometimes dashed down at crowded tables in primitive Italian inns, bring together art and nature, Antiquity and the Renaissance, aesthetics and science, observations of climate, rocks, plants, and the Italian people, in an unpremeditated mixture through which the poet's mature vision of the natural and human world can be seen taking shape. Goethe's Italian diary brings us close to a great European writer at a turning-point in his life.

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ISBN9780198901228
Author Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe , Terence James Reed
PublisherOxford University Press
GenreBiography, History, and Literature
FormatPaperback
PublishedDecember 2024
LanguageENG- English
Pages192
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 - 22 March 1832) was a German writer and according to George Eliot, "Germany's greatest man of letters... and the last true polymath to walk the earth." Goethe's works span the fields of poetry, drama, literature, theology, humanism and science. Goethe's magnum opus, lauded as one of the peaks of world literature, is the two-part drama Faust. Goethe's other well-known literary works include his numerous poems, the Bildungsroman Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and the epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe T. J. Reed is Taylor Professor emeritus of the German language and literature at Oxford University.

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