Italian Journey 1786-1788
1786-1788
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- Paperback
512 pages
- Release Date
1 January 1983
Summary
Goethe’s famous account of his time and travels in Italy.
In 1786, when he was already the acknowledged leader of the Sturm und Drang literary movement, Goethe set out on a journey to Italy to fulfil a personal and artistic quest and to find relief from his responsibilities and the agonies of unrequited love. As he travelled to Venice, Rome, Naples and Sicily he wrote many letters, which he later used as the basis for the Italian Journey. A journal full of fascinating observations on …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140442335 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140442332 |
| Author: | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Elizabeth Mayer, W.H. Auden |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 1 January 1983 |
| Weight: | 350g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm x 22mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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About The Author
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born in 1749. Having studied at Leipzig and Strassburg, he began to write some essays and lyrical verse, and at twenty-four wrote a play Goetz von Berlichingen, which brought him national fame and established him in the Sturm und Drang movement. He is most famous for his tragedy Werther. He died in 1832.
W. H. Auden was Professor of Poetry at Oxford University from 1956 to 1960. He published poems throughout his life, and in 1946 became a US citizen. He died in 1973.
Elizabeth Mayer has also translated, in collaboration with Louise Bogan, Elective Affinities and Werther.
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