A review of Conversations with Goethe by Johann Peter Eckermann, translated by Allan Blunden. The grown man would “harvest” the ideas that Goethe let fall in his last decade. An aspiring poet, ...
JOHN ARMSTRONG knows he has an uphill battle in making a case for his subject, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The author even begins his book, “Love, Life, Goethe,” with the Dublin building-site joke he ...
1811-1812. A rich autumn of grape harvesting, of golden forests and red sunset skies. The last but two symphonies and the last violin sonata. Lovely declining days and latter-day loves. And the ...
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