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Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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9780199257515
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Goethe: the Poet and the Age Vol. II
Number of Pages
972 Pages
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English
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European / German, Literary
Publication Year
2003
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Yes
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Literary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography
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Uk-Trade Paper
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49.4 Oz
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6.1 in
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'No great writer, I think, has ever been brainier than Goethe, and no reader can possibly hope to follow him from beginning to end. ... This is a remarkable book, sometimes wearing but always full of value. From this point in Goethe's life onwards, a huge amount is known about him ... NicholasBoyle explores a great deal of this, and takes care to set the colossus in his intellectual and political setting ... Like Goethe, it is colossally daunting, and demands our serious attention; it is only fair to say that like Goethe's work, too, one will probably read it and feel that, with the actof reading, one has only started to come to terms with what it has to say.'Philip Hensher, Spectator 29/1/00, 'magnificent book ... Although the book calls itself a biography, it isfar more than that: a study of Goethe that refuses to separate the life from thework and devotes very original attention to the other major figures Goethe movedamong ... the book is an unparalleled portrait of the times as they touch onGoethe, fascinatingly detailed and mastered ... One of the most interesting andimportant aspects of the book is its placing of Goethe within a network ofmostly younger writers with whom he was in the closest of contact ... Boyle'sbook is a tremendous achievement. It is hard to believe that so much has beenattempted and given to us in such coherent form. The writing is scholarly(rather than academic) and alive, palpably the precipitation of long and deepreflection ... If anything is going to direct more readers to Goethe, this bookshould.'Charlie Louth, Independent 19/2/00, A magnificent book ... an unparalleled portrait of the times as they touch on Goethe. Fascinatingly detailed and mastered., 'Outstanding ... The Poet and the Age, revolution and renunciation, 1790-1803. Very few biographies deal so fully and with such originality with a whole cultural environment, and the entire enterprise remains readable and humane.' Rowan Williams, The Tablet 23/12/00., 'this is a work of exemplary stature ... space is given to an encyclopedicknowledge that reaches deep into all Goethe's involvements ... presented withtotal grasp of detail.'T J Reed, Guardian 19/2/00, "The aftermath of the political and philosophical revolutions in France and Knigsberg are the focus of this volume....Boyle sets the stage for Goethe by telling us who thought what, when, and why during this fourteen-year span commonly known as Goethe's 'classical period'....The unique contribution of this biography lies in the vast learning and narrative skill with which Boyle traces the process of Goethe's peculiar amalgamation of truth and fiction, his merging of the personal and historical with the symbolic and the universal. Make it four volumes, Boyle deserves it."--Eighteenth-Century Studies "Boyle brings to his task inexhaustible energy, an eye for telling detail, and great lucidity of judgement."--New York Review of Books "This biography is well written and eminently readable. The reader is soon transported into the life and times of the period covered. It is very difficult to put the book down once one has started reading and beginning to feel that one is a fly on the wall watching history develop."--Dr. F.T. Hamblin, British-German Review, 'No great writer, I think, has ever been brainier than Goethe, and noreader can possibly hope to follow him from beginning to end. ... This is aremarkable book, sometimes wearing but always full of value. From this point inGoethe's life onwards, a huge amount is known about him ... Nicholas Boyleexplores a great deal of this, and takes care to set the colossus in hisintellectual and political setting ... Like Goethe, it is colossally daunting,and demands our serious attention; it is only fair to say that like Goethe'swork, too, one will probably read it and feel that, with the act of reading, onehas only started to come to terms with what it has to say.'Philip Hensher, Spectator 29/1/00, 'This biography is well written and eminently readable. The reader is soon transported into the life and times of the period covered. It is very difficult to put the book down once one has started reading and beginning to feel that one is a fly on the wall watching history develop.'Dr F.T. Hamblin, British-German Review, 'Boyle's Goethe has succeeded in appealing not only to academics, but also to a very wide general readership, both in Britain and in Germany. ... It challenges a whole array of popular and academic assumptions about the poet and the age; it is daring and controversial in its interpretation andexplanations. Not only does Boyle revise German political and intellectual history at the time of the French Revolution. He also opens up a fresh and very exciting perspective onto a new, political Goethe, the heir of Voltaire and Kant, a true figure of the Enlightenment. Last but not least,Boyle's is also a highly topical book. Ultimately, its theme transcends the period. This is a study of the invention of modern individualism.'Maiken Umbach, University of Manchester, 'towers among a Victorian prodigality of massive biographies ... the sheerrange of Goethe's sovereignty fully justifies, indeed compels Boyle'samplitude.'George Steiner, The Observer, 30/1/00, 'Outstanding ... The Poet and the Age, revolution and renunciation,1790-1803. Very few biographies deal so fully and with such originality with awhole cultural environment, and the entire enterprise remains readable andhumane.'Rowan Williams, The Tablet 23/12/00., "The aftermath of the political and philosophical revolutions in France and K"onigsberg are the focus of this volume....Boyle sets the stage for Goethe by telling us who thought what, when, and why during this fourteen-year span commonly known as Goethe's 'classical period'....The unique contribution of this biography lies in the vast learning and narrative skill with which Boyle traces the process of Goethe's peculiar amalgamation of truth and fiction, his merging of the personal and historical with the symbolic and the universal. Make it four volumes, Boyle deserves it."--Eighteenth-Century Studies"Boyle brings to his task inexhaustible energy, an eye for telling detail, and great lucidity of judgement."--New York Review of Books"This biography is well written and eminently readable. The reader is soon transported into the life and times of the period covered. It is very difficult to put the book down once one has started reading and beginning to feel that one is a fly on the wall watching history develop."--Dr. F.T. Hamblin, British-German Review, 'monumental biography ... beautifully wrought second volume ... Few biographers mix intellectual grandeur, tenderness and humour as seamlessly as Boyle does in this account of how Goethe fought the way forward in his private, public and creative life. ... a portrait of Goethe as both a man ofhis times and an individual who was, as T S Eliot put it, "about as unrepresentative of his Age as a man of genius can be."'Jackie Wullschlager, FT Weekend, 19/2/00, 'The various works are examined in great detail so that the reader has here a history of German literature as well as a study of Goethe in his middle period.' (E.B), Contemporary Review, Nov. 2000., 'The various works are examined in great detail so that the reader hashere a history of German literature as well as a study of Goethe in his middleperiod.'(E.B), Contemporary Review, Nov. 2000., "The aftermath of the political and philosophical revolutions in France and Königsberg are the focus of this volume....Boyle sets the stage for Goethe by telling us who thought what, when, and why during this fourteen-year span commonly known as Goethe's 'classical period'....The unique contribution of this biography lies in the vast learning and narrative skill with which Boyle traces the process of Goethe's peculiar amalgamation of truth and fiction, his merging of the personal and historical with the symbolic and the universal. Make it four volumes, Boyle deserves it."--Eighteenth-Century Studies"Boyle brings to his task inexhaustible energy, an eye for telling detail, and great lucidity of judgement."--New York Review of Books"This biography is well written and eminently readable. The reader is soon transported into the life and times of the period covered. It is very difficult to put the book down once one has started reading and beginning to feel that one is a fly on the wall watching history develop."--Dr. F.T. Hamblin, British-German Review, 'towers among a Victorian prodigality of massive biographies ... the sheer range of Goethe's sovereignty fully justifies, indeed compels Boyle's amplitude.'George Steiner, The Observer, 30/1/00, 'monumental biography ... beautifully wrought second volume ... Fewbiographers mix intellectual grandeur, tenderness and humour as seamlessly asBoyle does in this account of how Goethe fought the way forward in his private,public and creative life. ... a portrait of Goethe as both a man of his timesand an individual who was, as T S Eliot put it, "about as unrepresentative ofhis Age as a man of genius can be."'Jackie Wullschlager, FT Weekend, 19/2/00, 'As in the earlier book, much of Boyle's success lies in his detached toneas well as his determined overview and ability to create a sense of an entiresociety. At no time does he allow the singularity of his subject to cause thenarrative to slide into defensive hero worship ... Nor does Boyle, a scholar ofimmense range, ever presume to read Goethe's mind ... Boyle has demonstrated anawesome grasp of the complex self-contained states which make up the Germany ofGoethe's time ... meticulous study ... This is a dense, scholarly book mergingperceptive characterisation, textual analysis and culture as well as social andpolitical history. But it is also humane and entertaining, very much a portraitof a life lived with equal measures of order and chaos.'Eileen Battersby, The Irish Times, 5/2/00, 'As in the earlier book, much of Boyle's success lies in his detached tone as well as his determined overview and ability to create a sense of an entire society. At no time does he allow the singularity of his subject to cause the narrative to slide into defensive hero worship ... Nor doesBoyle, a scholar of immense range, ever presume to read Goethe's mind ... Boyle has demonstrated an awesome grasp of the complex self-contained states which make up the Germany of Goethe's time ... meticulous study ... This is a dense, scholarly book merging perceptive characterisation, textualanalysis and culture as well as social and political history. But it is also humane and entertaining, very much a portrait of a life lived with equal measures of order and chaos.'Eileen Battersby, The Irish Times, 5/2/00, 'This biography is well written and eminently readable. The reader is soontransported into the life and times of the period covered. It is very difficultto put the book down once one has started reading and beginning to feel that oneis a fly on the wall watching history develop.'Dr F.T. Hamblin, British-German Review, "The aftermath of the political and philosophical revolutions in France and Königsberg are the focus of this volume....Boyle sets the stage for Goethe by telling us who thought what, when, and why during this fourteen-year span commonly known as Goethe's 'classical period'....The unique contribution of this biography lies in the vast learning and narrative skill with which Boyle traces the process of Goethe's peculiar amalgamation of truth and fiction, his merging of the personal and historical with the symbolic and the universal. Make it four volumes, Boyle deserves it."-- Eighteenth-Century Studies"Boyle brings to his task inexhaustible energy, an eye for telling detail, and great lucidity of judgement."-- New York Review of Books"This biography is well written and eminently readable. The reader is soon transported into the life and times of the period covered. It is very difficult to put the book down once one has started reading and beginning to feel that one is a fly on the wall watching history develop."--Dr. F.T. Hamblin, British-German Review, 'this is a work of exemplary stature ... space is given to an encyclopedic knowledge that reaches deep into all Goethe's involvements ... presented with total grasp of detail.'T J Reed, Guardian 19/2/00, "The aftermath of the political and philosophical revolutions in France and Königsberg are the focus of this volume....Boyle sets the stage for Goethe by telling us who thought what, when, and why during this fourteen-year span commonly known as Goethe's 'classical period'....The unique contribution of this biography lies in the vast learning and narrative skill with which Boyle traces the process of Goethe's peculiar amalgamation of truth and fiction, his merging of the personal and historical with the symbolic and the universal. Make it four volumes, Boyle deserves it."--Eighteenth-Century Studies "Boyle brings to his task inexhaustible energy, an eye for telling detail, and great lucidity of judgement."--New York Review of Books "This biography is well written and eminently readable. The reader is soon transported into the life and times of the period covered. It is very difficult to put the book down once one has started reading and beginning to feel that one is a fly on the wall watching history develop."--Dr. F.T. Hamblin, British-German Review, "The aftermath of the political and philosophical revolutions in France and K¨onigsberg are the focus of this volume....Boyle sets the stage for Goethe by telling us who thought what, when, and why during this fourteen-year span commonly known as Goethe's 'classical period'....The unique contribution of this biography lies in the vast learning and narrative skill with which Boyle traces the process of Goethe's peculiar amalgamation of truth and fiction, his merging of the personal and historical with the symbolic and the universal. Make it four volumes, Boyle deserves it."--Eighteenth-Century Studies"Boyle brings to his task inexhaustible energy, an eye for telling detail, and great lucidity of judgement."--New York Review of Books"This biography is well written and eminently readable. The reader is soon transported into the life and times of the period covered. It is very difficult to put the book down once one has started reading and beginning to feel that one is a fly on the wall watching history develop."--Dr. F.T. Hamblin, British-German Review, 'Boyle's Goethe has succeeded in appealing not only to academics, but alsoto a very wide general readership, both in Britain and in Germany. ... Itchallenges a whole array of popular and academic assumptions about the poet andthe age; it is daring and controversial in its interpretation and explanations.Not only does Boyle revise German political and intellectual history at the timeof the French Revolution. He also opens up a fresh and very excitingperspective onto a new, political Goethe, the heir of Voltaire and Kant, a truefigure of the Enlightenment. Last but not least, Boyle's is also a highlytopical book. Ultimately, its theme transcends the period. This is a study ofthe invention of modern individualism.'Maiken Umbach, University of Manchester, "The aftermath of the political and philosophical revolutions in France and Königsberg are the focus of this volume....Boyle sets the stage for Goethe by telling us who thought what, when, and why during this fourteen-year span commonly known as Goethe's 'classical period'....The unique contribution of this biography lies in the vast learning and narrative skill with which Boyle traces the process of Goethe's peculiar amalgamation of truth and fiction, his merging of the personal and historical with the symbolic and the universal. Make it four volumes, Boyle deserves it."--Eighteenth-CenturyStudies "Boyle brings to his task inexhaustible energy, an eye for telling detail, and great lucidity of judgement."--New York Review of Books "This biography is well written and eminently readable. The reader is soon transported into the life and times of the period covered. It is very difficult to put the book down once one has started reading and beginning to feel that one is a fly on the wall watching history develop."--Dr. F.T. Hamblin,British-German Review, "The aftermath of the political and philosophical revolutions in France and Konigsberg are the focus of this volume....Boyle sets the stage for Goethe by telling us who thought what, when, and why during this fourteen-year span commonly known as Goethe's 'classical period'....The unique contribution of this biography lies in the vast learning and narrative skill with which Boyle traces the process of Goethe's peculiar amalgamation of truth and fiction, his merging of the personal and historical with the symbolic and the universal. Make it four volumes, Boyle deserves it."--Eighteenth-Century Studies "Boyle brings to his task inexhaustible energy, an eye for telling detail, and great lucidity of judgement."--New York Review of Books "This biography is well written and eminently readable. The reader is soon transported into the life and times of the period covered. It is very difficult to put the book down once one has started reading and beginning to feel that one is a fly on the wall watching history develop."--Dr. F.T. Hamblin, British-German Review, 'magnificent book ... Although the book calls itself a biography, it is far more than that: a study of Goethe that refuses to separate the life from the work and devotes very original attention to the other major figures Goethe moved among ... the book is an unparalleled portrait of the timesas they touch on Goethe, fascinatingly detailed and mastered ... One of the most interesting and important aspects of the book is its placing of Goethe within a network of mostly younger writers with whom he was in the closest of contact ... Boyle's book is a tremendous achievement. It is hard tobelieve that so much has been attempted and given to us in such coherent form. The writing is scholarly (rather than academic) and alive, palpably the precipitation of long and deep reflection ... If anything is going to direct more readers to Goethe, this book should.'Charlie Louth, Independent 19/2/00, "The aftermath of the political and philosophical revolutions in France and K nigsberg are the focus of this volume....Boyle sets the stage for Goethe by telling us who thought what, when, and why during this fourteen-year span commonly known as Goethe's 'classical period'....The unique contribution of this biography lies in the vast learning and narrative skill with which Boyle traces the process of Goethe's peculiar amalgamation of truth and fiction, his merging of the personal and historical with the symbolic and the universal. Make it four volumes, Boyle deserves it."--Eighteenth-CenturyStudies "Boyle brings to his task inexhaustible energy, an eye for telling detail, and great lucidity of judgement."--New York Review of Books "This biography is well written and eminently readable. The reader is soon transported into the life and times of the period covered. It is very difficult to put the book down once one has started reading and beginning to feel that one is a fly on the wall watching history develop."--Dr. F.T. Hamblin,British-German Review
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Table Of Content
List of Illustrations9. The Age of Revolution10. 'A Revolution for Me Too' (1790-1793)11. A Meeting of Minds (1793-1794)12. Fictions and Riddles (1795)13. The Great Moment (1796)14. Paradise Renounced (1796-1797)15. The New Century (1798-1800)16. 'What You Were is Gone' (1801-1803)Works Cited in the NotesNotesGeneral IndexIndex of Goethe's Works
Synopsis
When Volume I of Nicholas Boyle's biography of Goethe appeared, it received an avalanche of praise on both sides of the Atlantic. George Steiner, in The New Yorker , called it "the best biography of Goethe in English." Doris Lessing, in The Independent , called it "biography at its best." And The New York Times Book Review hailed it as "a remarkable achievement," adding "there is nothing comparable to this study in any language." Now comes the second volume of this definitive portrait, published on the 250th anniversary of Goethe's birth. Here Nicholas Boyle chronicles the most eventful and crowded years of Goethe's life: the period of the French Revolution--which turned Goethe's life upside down--and of the philosophical revolution in Germany which ushered in the periods of Idealism and Romanticism. It was also a period dominated by two intense personal relationships--with Schiller, Weimar's other great poet, philosopher, and dramatist, and with Christiana Vulpius, the mother of his son. Boyle paints vivid portraits of Goethe's harrowing experiences of the Revolutionary wars, of the explosion of new ideas in philosophy and literature which for ten years made Jena the intellectual capital of Europe, and of the upheavals sparked by Napoleon which destroyed the Holy Roman Empire. Boyle captures both the large-scale events that swept Europe and the personal dramas of this exciting time. And he offers brilliant new analyses of Goethe's works of the period, most notably Wilhelm Meister, The Natural Daughter , and Faust . Indeed, this volume is a major work of historical and literary scholarship, and an important biography of one of the giants of Western culture., When Volume I of Nicholas Boyle's biography of Goethe appeared, it received an avalanche of praise on both sides of the Atlantic. George Steiner, in The New Yorker, called it "the best biography of Goethe in English." Doris Lessing, in The Independent, called it "biography at its best." And The New York Times Book Review hailed it as "a remarkable achievement," adding "there is nothing comparable to this study in any language." Now comes the second volume of this definitive portrait, published on the 250th anniversary of Goethe's birth. Here Nicholas Boyle chronicles the most eventful and crowded years of Goethe's life: the period of the French Revolution--which turned Goethe's life upside down--and of the philosophical revolution in Germany which ushered in the periods of Idealism and Romanticism. It was also a period dominated by two intense personal relationships--with Schiller, Weimar's other great poet, philosopher, and dramatist, and with Christiana Vulpius, the mother of his son. Boyle paints vivid portraits of Goethe's harrowing experiences of the Revolutionary wars, of the explosion of new ideas in philosophy and literature which for ten years made Jena the intellectual capital of Europe, and of the upheavals sparked by Napoleon which destroyed the Holy Roman Empire. Boyle captures both the large-scale events that swept Europe and the personal dramas of this exciting time. And he offers brilliant new analyses of Goethe's works of the period, most notably Wilhelm Meister, The Natural Daughter, and Faust. Indeed, this volume is a major work of historical and literary scholarship, and an important biography of one of the giants of Western culture., Goethe was a poet of supreme intelligence and sensitivity living through political and intellectual changes which have shaped the modern world. Boyle vividly narrates both the large-scale events and the personal drama of this exciting time, to give lucid accounts of important thinkers whom English readers have hitherto found inaccessible, and to analyse in new ways Goethe's works of the period, notably Wilhelm Meister, The Natural Daughter, andFaust., In this, the second volume of Goethe: The Poet and the Age, Nicholas Boyle covers the most eventful and crowded years of Goethe's life: the period of the French Revolution, which turned his life upside down, and of the German philosophical revolution which ushered in the periods of Idealism and Romanticism. It was also a period dominated by two intense personal relationships: with Schiller, Weimar's other great poet, philosopher, and dramatist, and with Christiana Vulpius, the mother of his son. Goethe was a poet of supreme intelligence and sensitivity living through political and intellectual changes which have shaped the modern world. The transition into modernity is the theme of this volume: Goethe's harrowing experiences of the Revolutionary wars; the explosion of new ideas in philosophy and literature which he absorbed and aapted and which for ten years made Jena the intellectual capital of Europe; the political upheaval initiated by Napoleon which destroyed the Holy Roman Empire in which Goethe had grown up, and with it the cultural role he had envisaged for Jena and Weimar.Boyle vividly narrates both the large-scale events and the personal drama of this exciting time, to give lucid accounts of important thinkers whom English readers have hitherto found inaccessible, and to analyse in new ways Goethe's works of the period, notably Wilhelm Meister, The Natural Daughter, and Faust.
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