Goethe, Volume 4:
From My Life: Poetry and Truth (Parts One to Three)
Edited by Thomas P. Saine & Jeffrey L. Sammons
Translated by Robert R. Heitner
Introduction and notes by Thomas P. Saine

Paper | 1994 | This edition is out of print | ISBN: 9780691037974
513 pp.

Covering the period from his birth in 1749 to his departure for Weimar in 1775, in Poetry and Truth Goethe recalls his childhood and youth as the son of well-to-do, middle-class parents, his education and literary awakening, early loves, and the creation and reception of works from his Sturm und Drang years, such as The Sorrows of Young Werther, Goetz von Berlichingen, and Urfaust. Not merely an account of Goethe's own life, this book also explores the influences on his early years--friends, mentors, famous personages of his time, intellectual movements, cities, and historical events--to draw a lifelike picture of his time.

Table of Contents:

INTRODUCTION 1
FROM MY LIFE: POETRY AND TRUTH 15
PART ONE 19
Book One 21
Book Two 46
Book Three 72
Book Four 95
Book Five 130
PART TWO 167
Book Six 169
Book Seven 197
Book Eight 233
Book Nine 264
Book Ten 295
PART THREE 333
Book Eleven 335
Book Twelve 373
Book Thirteen 410
Book Fourteen 440
Book Fifteen 464
NOTES 489
Part One 491
Part Two 496
Part Three 507

Subject Areas:

• Comparative Literature
• Collected Works and Papers

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