Biographies & Memoirs / Biography / Goethe The Poet and the Age. by Nicholas Boyle

• Book Title: Goethe The Poet and the Age.
• Author: Nicholas Boyle
• ISBN: 0198158661
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Year Published: 1991
• Our Price: £53.90 GBP ($88.94 USD)
• Description: Clarendon Press Oxford 1991: hardcover in dust jacket: 6.2 all by 2 by 9.5 inches tall: 807 pages including index: black and white illustrations. Synopsis : A biography covering the period from Goethe's birth to 1790, encompassing the revolutionary age that he lived in as well as the novelist, poet and playwright himself. It details the personal and poetic meaning of his youth in Frankfurt, his move to Weimar, his journeys to Italy; and examines the popular concept of ' Goethezeit ' the age of Goethe. Contents: -- Germany in the 18th century, pages 1 -- 19. Origins of the poet, pages 41 -- 77. Prometheus unbound (1770 -- 1775), pages 89 -- 212. Displacement , pages 231 -- 266. Court favourite (1775 -- 1780) , pages 281 -- 312. The Baron (1780 -- 1786) , pages 333 -- 397. To Italy at last (1786 -- 1788), pages 413 -- 514. The watershed (1788 -- 1790), pages 531 -- 641. Works cited in notes. Notes. General index. Index of Goethe's work. Condition: overall very clean and good. Please note a heavy book: will customers outside the UK please e-mail for shipping costs.
• Condition: Collectable- Very Good
• Dustcover: Yes
• Binding: Hardback
• Type: Used Books

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