Goethe Etc.
Tuesday, June 16, 2020
Cornelia Goethe
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On this date in 1777 Goethe received news of the death of his sister Cornelia the previous week, on June 8, four weeks after the death of...
Sunday, June 14, 2020
Goethe in Fiction
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I have a feeling that there is a large topic on the subject of the title of this post. Suffice it for today simply to post here a passage ...
Tuesday, June 9, 2020
Goethe and Trade: Correction
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Global Trade Map I posted on the above subject earlier, but must now make a correction to what I wrote in that post about Goethe and tra...
Wednesday, May 13, 2020
W.H. Auden (again) on Goethe
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This post is an addendum to my last post, in which I mentioned two reviews Auden had written on Goethe subjects. (In the meantime, by the ...
Saturday, May 9, 2020
W.H. Auden on Goethe
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Goethe by David Levine (NYRB 2/9/67) Beginning with George Henry Lewes in 1864, English-language scholars have written acclaimed bios of...
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Friday, May 8, 2020
Masks
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The lockdown has been good for getting a lot of work done without distraction. My summer sojourn in British Columbia always offered that r...
Monday, April 27, 2020
Goethe in the Campagna
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I have posted on this subject before, indeed a decade ago, but one of my domestic tasks in the present lockdown has been to go through ...
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