Goethe

List of contents

1. Moral and Intellectual Life 2. Poetical and Artistic Life 3. Werther 4. Wagner the Pedant 5. The First Part of ‘Faust I’ 6. The Second Part of ‘Faust I’. The Tragedy of Gretchen 7. The Systematic form of ‘Faust I’ and the Double form of ‘Wilhelm Meister’ 8. Fragments and Hymns 9. Historical and Ethical Dramas 10. Helena 11. ‘Hermann und Dorothea’ 12. Lyrics 13. The ‘Wahlverwandtschaften’ 14. The ‘Wanderjahre’ 15. ‘Faust II’ 16. Conclusion

About the author

Benedetto Croce

Summary

Croce admired Goethe partly because the latter possessed a knowledge of human nature in all its aspects but nonetheless kept his mind above and beyond political sympathies and the quarrels of nations. In this volume originally published in English in 1923, Croce distils his critical ideas about Goethe with the aim of helping readers to better understand the German poet’s work.

Product details

• Authors: Benedetto Croce
• Assisted by: Emily Anderson (Translation), Anderson Emily (Translation)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2019
• EAN: 9780367143817
• ISBN: 978-0-367-14381-7
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: The Collected Works; Collected Works; Benedetto Croce: Collected Works
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Business & Economics / General, PHILOSOPHY / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / European / German, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: general, Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: poetry and poets