The literary work which Goethe produced and stimulated in his Weimar years -- the greater part of his life -- gave to a country which was not yet a nation the centre of artistic and intellectual authority it lacked. T. J. Reed's study traces the way this came about, against what social and political difficulties and literary opposition, and places the results in the larger context of German cultural history. The historical narrative is built up from precise analysis of the major texts of the period, and weaves individual writers' careers persuasively into the broader pattern.
Pages
271
Format
Hardcover
Release
February 28, 1980
ISBN 13
9780064958257
The Classical Centre: Goethe & Weimar, 1775-1812
The literary work which Goethe produced and stimulated in his Weimar years -- the greater part of his life -- gave to a country which was not yet a nation the centre of artistic and intellectual authority it lacked. T. J. Reed's study traces the way this came about, against what social and political difficulties and literary opposition, and places the results in the larger context of German cultural history. The historical narrative is built up from precise analysis of the major texts of the period, and weaves individual writers' careers persuasively into the broader pattern.