| 单词 | Goethe |
| 例句 | The great German writer and statesman Johann Wolfgang von Goethe later marveled at how easily she moved back and forth between art and science, between the “inspection of nature and the aims of painting.” The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. Goethe,” he scribbled one day. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Here they were, gathered at one table, the nation’s foremost practitioners of what Goethe and Schelling called “frozen music.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He too was drawn to the same literary icons like a moth to a flame: Sir Walter Scott, Lord Byron, Goethe and Shakespeare. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Faust, as portrayed by Goethe, was an intellectual who sold his soul to the devil for worldly knowledge, power and pleasure. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Father has taken the plays of Goethe and Schiller down from the big bookcase and is planning to read to me every evening. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z A half hour later, Werner and Frederick are reading Goethe in poetics. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “I know little, if anything, pleasing to say about the people,” wrote Goethe, who visited northern Italy in 1786. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Only Goethe seemed determined to stay above it all, even to the point of ignoring the relentless advance of Napoleon’s army. These Romantics Celebrated the Self, to a Fault 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z Brian also added a preface from Goethe's Faust: "He who ever strives with all his might/ That man we can redeem." The Gothic Symphony: 'It's a Himalayan peak' 2011-07-13T20:30:01Z Here, they are Schiller and his friend and supporter Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. ‘Beloved Sisters,’ Directed by Dominik Graf 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z The Bauhaus opened in 1919 in Weimar, the home of Goethe and Schiller, not 20 minutes’ drive from where, 18 years later, Buchenwald, the largest concentration camp within Germany’s borders, would be established. Review | Bauhaus designers changed the way the world looks. But did they make it better? 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z What Goethe was talking about was, no doubt, the explosive effect of Galileo's telescope on the European world-picture. 'You may now turn over your papers' 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z To the relief of the Goethe organisers, it is rammed, with a mixture of NGO workers and expats and stylish locals, everyone brought together by a thunderous performance from Batida. Ten Cities, a million tunes 2013-07-07T18:00:02Z I advise you to follow in the footsteps of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who immersed himself in the peace of Castel Gandolfo, or Hans Christian Andersen, who plunged into the flowers of Genzano. Read Your Way Through Rome 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z For more on the Goethe Institut’s event series The Wall in Our Heads, continuing through Dec. 15, visit www.goethe.de/washington. ‘Romanzas de Riohacha’ is a musical tribute to Gabriel García Márquez He drolly describes it as “the comic high point of Goethe’s original play, and one of the most delightfully urbane moments in all of German literature.” Randy Newman's Faust: The Devil Laughs and Cries 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z It is best to put aside any knowledge you may have of Goethe when attending a performance of Gounod’s “Faust.” Music Review: A Review of the Metropolitan Opera?s ?Faust? 2011-11-30T13:23:05Z Johann Wolfgang von Goethe hiked here in 1779, receiving poetic inspiration from its many splendors — as did William Wordsworth, some 11 years later. Looking for the Sublime? It’s in This Swiss Valley 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z “We spent an hour talking about Goethe and Schiller,” Mr. Petzold said. Christian Petzold Directs ‘Barbara,’ Starring Nina Hoss 2012-12-07T23:53:01Z The ensemble, taking its name from an 1819 book by Goethe, was the brainchild of Barenboim, who is Argentine Israeli, and the late Palestinian American intellectual Edward Said. Barenboim brings West-Eastern Divan to D.C. for the first time 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Faust, which has its world premiere at the Venice film festival on Thursday, is loosely based on German writer Goethe's take on the myth about a man who sells his soul to the devil. Sokurov completes power series with "Faust" film 2011-09-08T15:03:27Z In 1829, Stendhal wrote of strolling “with delight among the grand avenues of green trees” and Goethe so loved a statue of the goddess Juno that he had it copied for his house in Germany. U.S.-Born Princess Opens Historic Villa to the Public 2010-07-15T17:01:00Z “This is not the mass of German people who have read Goethe and Schiller,” he said. They Translated ‘Hamilton’ Into German. Was It Easy? Nein. 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z Off-Center summer series, in “my version of Goethe’s Faust. His Faust, of course, is a masterpiece. I read the classic comic book, and I concur. Is my Faust the equal of Goethe’s?” Randy Newman's Faust: The Devil Laughs and Cries 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z The uniting theme was literary, with each piece inspired by poets who were masters of both the lyric and dramatic modes: Shakespeare, Goethe and the Spanish poet and playwright Antonio Machado. Orchestra of St. Luke’s Gives a Literature-Inspired Concert 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z He wanted to bring their extravagant adaptation of Goethe’s “Faust” to New York. ‘Sleep No More’ Awakens After a Long Hibernation 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z Hugo de Ana — who has worked here steadily as a director — oversaw this opera production, based on Goethe’s tragic epistolary novel of love. What's On This Week Around The World 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z Based on a Goethe poem, the work starts bleakly, the soloist singing of rueful isolation over morose low strings. Music Review: Brahms for the Schumanns 2010-10-14T20:55:00Z They hoped for spiritual guidance from Weimar’s intellectual ghosts: former residents include Goethe, Schiller, Nietzsche and Liszt. 100 years of Bauhaus: Berlin and beyond 2019-03-16T04:00:00Z “One day, my film of Faust will be dubbed from English into German. I’ll be exporting Goethe to Germany!” A hotline to Satan: why is the ex-CEO of Vodafone making a film version of Faust? 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z As Schiller put it to a friend, Goethe “gets too much from the world of the senses,” whereas Schiller would “get things from the soul.” These Romantics Celebrated the Self, to a Fault 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z What the writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal said of Benjamin’s essay on Goethe still rings true: it was, and is, “absolutely incomparable.” Hannah Arendt was right: Walter Benjamin is “sui generis” 2014-03-19T11:50:00Z How did a man described as a “half-insane rascal” and “pathetic dunderhead” rise to power in the land of Goethe and Beethoven? The Top Books of 2016 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z It’s not exact, but it is evocative, like the Goethe poetry it’s based on. Review: The Danish String Quartet Spins Through Schubert 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z “This is my version of Goethe’s ‘Faust,’ ” he began. ‘Randy Newman’s Faust,’ With the Composer On Hand 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z In “Gretchen am Spinnrade,” Anderson truly becomes the young woman in the Goethe text, both terrified and thrilled at the desire a handsome stranger has aroused in her. Marian Anderson: A Voice of Authenticity and Justice 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z In “The Sorrows of Young Werther,” Goethe’s bittersweet tale of unrequited love, the tree is used throughout as an erotic leitmotif. Ian Bostridge’s ‘Schubert’s Winter Journey’ examines the composer’s melancholy work 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z When he studied philosophy he thought a lot about what makes humans human and what it is to be authentic, and realised that Goethe’s drama explores these issues. A hotline to Satan: why is the ex-CEO of Vodafone making a film version of Faust? 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z Höfgen’s most acclaimed role — and yes, he’s talented — is as the demon Mephistopheles in Goethe’s “Faust,” who persuades the hero to sell his soul in return for worldly wealth, status and pleasure. Stories of Then That Still Hold Up Now 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z Her D.C. presentation was part of the Goethe Institut’s event series “The Wall in Our Heads,” continuing through Dec. 15. ‘Romanzas de Riohacha’ is a musical tribute to Gabriel García Márquez As for the Germans, no one bothered much with dry-as-dust Schiller, while Goethe's Faust was fit only for the study. X is for xenophobia 2012-05-22T12:27:52Z And Heinrich Neugeboren, in designing a monument to Bach by visualizing the lines of a fugue, attempted to make literal Goethe’s famous description of architecture as frozen music. At the Bauhaus, Music Was More Than a Hobby 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z The intellectual and cultural milieu of the Scholls is evoked through scenes of theatre within theatre in which Dostoevsky and Goethe are dramatised as part of their discussions of political morality. I predict a riot 2011-03-05T00:07:24Z Like the protagonist of Goethe’s seminal “Faust,” “they believed that we have two souls in our breast,” Mr. Pesic said. Does Brahms’s Obsession With Rhythmic Instability Explain His Music’s Magic? 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z In 1999 he received the Goethe Prize, awarded every three years. Siegfried Lenz, Novelist of Germany’s Past, Dies at 88 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z The Goethe depicted here, Markovits suggests, is every bit a sensitive romantic: “His feelings are wildly exaggerated, but his pain is real.” 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z By the spring of 1830, Rossini had even sketched a tantalizing scenario for a new opera based on Goethe’s “Faust.” The Puzzle of Rossini?s Brief Career 2011-07-03T02:00:06Z He supplies a generous chapter on the German Enlightenment, connecting threads of the 1770s and ’80s, opposing currents of rationalism and expressive release: Schiller, Kant, Goethe, the American Revolution. ‘Beethoven,’ by Jan Swafford 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z But even the great German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who died in 1832, acknowledged that the German tongue should be open to outside influences. Shitstorm arrives in German dictionary 2013-07-04T10:14:13Z Shorter is also fascinated by a version of “Iphigenia in Tauris” — which tells of Iphigenia’s life after she escapes from sacrifice — that was translated in the 1700s by the German poet Goethe. How Esperanza Spalding and Wayne Shorter Realized His Dream: an Opera 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z The Goethe Institute in the Czech Republic invited Macras to make a piece addressing the issue. Roma Tell Their Stories in a Dance-Theater Work From Berlin 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z The Faust Symphony of 1854 probes the psychology and metaphysics of Goethe's great drama. Top of the Proms 2011 2011-07-07T20:30:02Z Twenty-five objects from the museums collection, plus a vase and four rare editions on Newton, Voltaire and Goethe's color theories borrowed from the Huntington Library, are on display through January. How new shades of blue made 'A Revolution of the Palette' at Norton Simon 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z Goethe once defined it as “four rational people conversing with each other”, which suggests that a book on the subject might not be very exciting. Four into one does go 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z Mr. Rihm’s music ranges widely and ingeniously through contemporary styles and includes a sort of historical framing, as he seamlessly weaves in patches of music from Goethe’s era. Music: Emmanuel Villaume to Leave Spoleto Festival USA 2010-06-01T23:00:00Z Goethe was a passionate geologist; Voltaire performed scientific experiments; but today, someone without specialized scientific knowledge is seen as a dabbler. Review | Neglected visionary Agnes Denes altered our landscape with her art. At 88, she’s finally getting her due. 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z It's devoted to Mahler's Symphony No 8, Symphony of a Thousand, an epic piece partly inspired by Goethe's Faust, and which explores themes of redemption and love. BBC Proms 2010 2010-07-16T05:44:00Z Goethe himself is more exposed, and the picture we get of him is more complex than sympathetic. The Obsession That Inspired Great Poetry, if Not Great Romance 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z "Evil is reproduceable, and Goethe formulated its essence: 'Unhappy people are dangerous'." Sokurov completes power series with "Faust" film 2011-09-08T15:03:27Z He went and read it out loud to Goethe, and he read it out of the Danish version and translated it into German on the fly. ‘It Has It All’: Taking on a Strange, Immense Piano Concerto 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z Goethe called on them to recognise that sometimes non-German phrases were simply better. Shitstorm arrives in German dictionary 2013-07-04T10:14:13Z "Nature has neither language nor discourse," wrote Goethe, "but she creates tongues and hearts, by which she feels and speaks." Caspar Henderson's top 10 natural histories 2012-10-10T10:33:31Z He also turned his hand to the more popular form of lithography and produced exquisitely moody illustrations of Shakespeare and Goethe, authors who remained central to his imagination. Review | In Paris, a major Delacroix exhibition that continues to explore his genius 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z Don’t miss the Goethe House, also destroyed in the war and reconstructed. Q&A: Sites En Route from Frankfurt to Munich 2010-07-20T19:50:00Z Both “The Demons” and his 10-hour 2007 production of “Wallenstein,” about a general in the Thirty Years’ War, pale in comparison to his 2000 staging of Goethe’s “Faust,” which clocked in at 21 hours. The Battle Behind the 12-Hour ?Demons? 2010-06-26T02:41:00Z “I was educated in Belgium so I didn’t get my German birthright – knowing Goethe’s Faust – until I was grown up.” A hotline to Satan: why is the ex-CEO of Vodafone making a film version of Faust? 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z Le Carré, who accepted Germany’s Goethe Medal for his life’s work in 2011, believes an opportunity was missed when the Berlin Wall came down in 1989. Tinker, Tailor, Writer, Spy 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z In successive close-ups, a patch of lichen on an Oxford road sign comes to resemble the profile of Goethe. Robinson in Ruins 2010-11-20T00:06:00Z This may be gutted Goethe but, as the entrancing actors leap and somersault above you, I suggest you simply lie back and think of Iceland. Faust 2010-10-03T20:30:00Z To watch him perform even as purely lyrical a song as Schubert’s “Meeresstille,” a setting of Goethe’s poem about a ship becalmed at sea, was to see a master actor at work. Ian Bostridge on Music’s Fuzzy Boundaries of Identity 2023-06-04T04:00:00Z “For me it’s where Goethe’s most philosophically profound.” A hotline to Satan: why is the ex-CEO of Vodafone making a film version of Faust? 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z Goethe wrote an epic masterpiece that became a linchpin of German literature, and Gounod turned it into a melodious and somewhat saccharine opera about a man who did a woman wrong. Review | Overly sweet ‘Faust’ at Washington National Opera proves more cloying than addictive 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z Police were finally able to pull over the cab at Goethe and Stone Streets, but the man jumped out of the cab and tried to flee on foot, police said. 3 police officers hurt after man steals cab 2011-12-18T19:17:00Z “We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves,” Goethe wrote. Mariah Carey’s Rather Perfect Farewell to 2016 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z While the young Goethe was handsome, charismatic, sentimental and callous, the older Sage of Weimar all too often resembles a statue of himself: Even Safranski speaks of his being “encased in political frost.” A new look at Goethe, a one-time cultural celebrity 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z “My passion for Goethe, along with the rest of my education, enclosed me in a complete circle full of solid moral values that I have preserved throughout my life,” she wrote. Marlene Dietrich’s Marginalia 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z Goethe’s drama has been played on stage over 22 hours, he says; Humm plans to reduce the action to a 90-minute film. A hotline to Satan: why is the ex-CEO of Vodafone making a film version of Faust? 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z “Part one is more straightforward. Part two is where Goethe becomes...” A hotline to Satan: why is the ex-CEO of Vodafone making a film version of Faust? 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z The reconsideration of Nietzsche began as early as 1950 with Walter Kaufmann’s influential “Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist,” which portrayed him as a German humanist in the tradition of Goethe and Schiller. Two New Books Confront Nietzsche and His Ideas 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Adonis was awarded Germany's prestigious Goethe Prize for literature in May. Poets lead running for Nobel Literature prize 2011-10-04T15:06:59Z His many admirers included Goethe, who went so far as to send Howard gushing fan mail. In London, Blue Plaques Mark the Noted and Notorious 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z As his subtitle indicates, Safranski argues that Goethe approached his life as a work of art, requiring that any experience further his personal growth and development. A new look at Goethe, a one-time cultural celebrity 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z All of German intellectual history—Goethe and Beethoven—was subverted by the Nazis. Linda Ronstadt Has Found Another Voice 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z In her notes she includes the sonata under the heading “Eternal Feminine,” the phrase coined by Goethe in “Faust.” Music Review: H J Lim Performs Piano Sonatas at Le Poisson Rouge 2012-05-21T04:01:15Z But Goethe, I think, was talking about another imaginative effect which has not had so much attention. 'You may now turn over your papers' 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z Mr. Pisaroni’s German diction was clean, and his choice of texts — predominantly by Heine and Goethe — hinted at a discerning reader and thinker. Luca Pisaroni in Concert at Carnegie Hall 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z He then began more than 40 years of directing plays by Shakespeare, Molière, Goethe, Chekhov, Gogol and Dylan Thomas, as well as musicals and operas. Michael Bogdanov, Shakespearean Stage Director, Dies at 78 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z In her autobiography, she speaks of “deifying” Goethe in boarding school; after her father’s early death, she looked to Goethe as a father figure. Marlene Dietrich’s Marginalia 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z His favourite three examples are Goethe, Beethoven and Nietzsche himself. Who was Nietzsche? 2012-10-01T11:45:00Z Over the centuries here in Strasbourg, Gutenberg invented the printing press, a local military officer wrote the French national anthem and the young Goethe wrote and wrote. 36 Hours in Strasbourg, France 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z She decides to move out of the building, and, while hunting for a new apartment, she again overhears a man echoing Goethe and telling his wife to “get a move on.” The Overlooked Autofiction of Yuko Tsushima 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z Goethe was a stabilizing presence for the Jena Set, many of whom were a perilous combination of combative and thin-skinned. These Romantics Celebrated the Self, to a Fault 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z He was a special admirer of Goethe, and about that admiration Toibin writes: “Goethe had dreamed of many things, but he had never imagined Buchenwald.” Colm Toibin’s ‘The Magician’ Intimately Recaptures a Literary Giant 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z “Faust”: Alexander Sokurov’s adaptation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s allegorical drama about a man of medicine who makes a pact with the devil. Get active, stay healthy and safe | Weekend Preview 2014-01-08T20:42:34Z So that challenge is interesting in its own right, even if you wouldn’t want to side with Nietzsche, who’s ready to sacrifice the herd of humanity for the sake of a Goethe or a Beethoven. Who was Nietzsche? 2012-10-01T11:45:00Z Goethe, who never lost his admiration for Napoleon, is on the side of freedom but dubious about civil war and martyrdom, though he approved of the way Beethoven ends with a blaze of glory. Diplomatic Dudamel leads a fervent Beethoven charge at Disney Hall 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Auden — who himself aspired to be “a minor Atlantic Goethe” — championed this “last universal genius” in several characteristically brilliant essays. A new look at Goethe, a one-time cultural celebrity 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z As the furiously inventive artistic director of Target Margin Theater, Mr. Herskovits has presented adventurous productions of the more phantasmagorical works of Gertrude Stein, Goethe and Tennessee Williams, among others. The Week Ahead: May 8 ? 14 2011-05-06T19:26:23Z In March, the company will stage a stark and stylish “Faust,” inspired by Goethe’s epic about a scholar who makes a pact with the Devil. Concerts and Dance Tuned to the Season: Global Arts Guide 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z Yet Goethe was even more accomplished as a poet. A new look at Goethe, a one-time cultural celebrity 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Keenlyside’s energy seemed to rise after intermission with the concluding nine songs, including two set to texts by Goethe, whose dramatic poems inspired Schubert to vivid, almost operatic narratives. Music Review: Looking at Schubert and Finding Hamlet 2011-03-14T23:00:13Z In an epilogue, four figures representing posterity — Descartes, Goethe, Leibniz and Voltaire — weigh in on Kircher’s legacy. Review: ‘Theater of the World’ Journeys With a Polymath 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z Goethe, who admired the collection, wrote that “you are bound to find something sympathetic or stimulating” in it. Music Review: From Mahler, Love, Despair, Fairy Tales And Animals 2010-12-03T22:40:00Z Mr. Berardi quoted a Goethe phrase about “refashioning the fashioned lest it stiffen into iron.” Special Report: Fashion: When Youth Is the Holy Grail 2011-02-21T18:27:40Z Mr. Trawny will also discuss them at the Goethe Institute in New York on April 8. Heidegger’s Notebooks Renew Focus on Anti-Semitism 2014-03-30T21:44:42Z Even handling a line like “I’m not a fan of Goethe,” he sounds delightful. Theater Review | 'Rescue Me': Iphigenia and In-Jokes at the Ohio Theater 2010-04-04T22:09:00Z Studying new roles, he went religiously to primary sources, even beyond the score: Shakespeare for Verdi’s “Macbeth,” Goethe for “Faust,” Schiller for “Don Carlo.” Music: Standing Small, Singing Big, All Sulfur and Zest 2011-02-20T02:01:27Z Other rescued pieces include a Bible associated with Martin Luther, the 16th century Protestant Reformation leader, and the death mask of Friedrich Schiller, a German Romantic poet and friend of Goethe. Historic German library restores rare Copernicus book after blaze 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z He was best when pulled out of himself in more dramatic moments, like “Prometheus,” a vivid monologue by Goethe. Review | German baritone Benjamin Appl announces his U.S. arrival with a generous Phillips program 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z The play, a reworking of Euripides and Goethe by the Polish writer Joanna Bednarczyk, strives to reinterpret the character of Iphigenia, whose father, the Greek king Agamemnon, sacrifices her to appease a vengeful goddess. At Salzburg Festival, Directing Slow and Fast 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z In this setting of a text by Goethe, Proserpina, a daughter of Jupiter, finds herself in Hades, abducted by Pluto to be his queen. Music: Emmanuel Villaume to Leave Spoleto Festival USA 2010-06-01T23:00:00Z Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, whose collected works constitute a bit of light reading for Russell Brand. Russell Brand has Goethe be the world's fastest reader 2013-03-06T18:05:20Z You have only to venture 20 minutes outside of the picturesque old city, with its monuments to Goethe and Schiller, to arrive at the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald. Plays of Helplessness, and Hope, as the Planet Burns 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z But there are allusions to Molière and Goethe. A Master Storyteller From 19th-Century Brazil, Heir to the Greats and Entirely Sui Generis 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z The old German literary establishment, steeped in Goethe and Schiller, was appalled, but the book was about Berlin youth culture, where D.J.’s and artists sample all the time. Abroad: In Germany, Uproar Over a Doctoral Thesis 2011-03-14T16:58:11Z Faust, Goethe's ageing philosopher who dances with the devil, is a Doctor Atomic figure. Niobe, Regina di Tebe; Faust; The Makropulos Case; Fidelio 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z “Architecture is frozen music,” Goethe reputedly said, a phrase that suits the abstractions in the Athenaeum’s “Pattern and Repetition.” Review | In the galleries: Dark hues that paint unsettling portents 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z Speaking in his natural Scottish accent, Tennant initially gives off the air of a genial bookworm with whom you might discuss Goethe over a drink. A Studio Ghibli Classic Comes to the London Stage 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z Yet as pretty as the hometown of Goethe and Schiller is, there’s something stifling about Weimar’s cobblestone Old Town, with its faux-medieval terrace restaurants full of retirees contentedly eating fruitcake. On the Bauhaus Trail in Germany 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z Here, also, are architectural renderings, caricatures, satirical cartoons, travel sketches, drawings from a performance of “Othello,” and studies for his prints illustrating “Hamlet” and Goethe’s “Faust.” ‘Devotion to Drawing: The Karen B. Cohen Collection of Eugène Delacroix’ Review: A Master off the Canvas 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z Showings at the Goethe Institute German cultural centre, which was being guarded by police, would continue, said Dinyah Latuconsina, the centre's programme assistant. Gay film festival attacked by masked Islamic protesters 2010-09-29T10:40:00Z Now Mr. Newman, abetted by Encore’s Off-Center series, will bring this musical based on Goethe’s epic to a New York stage for a one-night concert performance. Theater Listings for June 27-July 3 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z Often her subjects were inspired by classical mythology, though she also drew on 18th-century writers like Goethe and Laurence Sterne. Design: A Niche of Stylish Power 2011-07-03T13:02:00Z “You sit there with a text, with two languages fighting each other in your head,” he said in 2008, when he accepted the Goethe Medal for his work in translation. John Woods, Masterly Translator of Thomas Mann, Dies at 80 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z He won the Nigeria Prize for Literature, which comes with a $100,000 reward, and received the African Writers’s Residency Award from Germany’s Goethe Institute. A Wave of New Fiction From Nigeria, as Young Writers Experiment With New Genres 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z I remember when I applied for a grant for my studies regarding the “Dreamworld Tibet” exhibition, I applied for money from a well-known institution called the Goethe Institute. Superman: Forged by bullies! 2012-06-16T20:30:00Z Oz won numerous prizes, including the Israel Prize, the country’s top civilian recognition, and Germany’s Goethe Award. Israeli media: Acclaimed author Amos Oz dies at 79 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z This beautiful novel depicts the elderly Goethe’s feverish infatuation with a young woman, an obsession that led him to compose the “Marienbad Elegy.” 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z As a young man, Goethe loved the plays for their rawness and realism. Political comparisons of Shakespeare are odorous 2013-04-19T20:00:21Z Just as visceral are some of his illustrations for an edition of Goethe's "Faust." Gabriel von Max's monkeys and martyrs, at Frye Art Museum 2011-07-27T22:15:04Z Goethe sentimentalised it in The Sorrows of Young Werther, "the appearance of the marvellous tree with its wax candles, sweets, and apples would put them in heavenly rapture." Inventing the Christmas Tree by Bernd Brunner – review 2012-12-14T08:00:01Z Sokurov, a festival favorite and considered a master by many, brought his strange, absorbing interpretation of Goethe's Faust, a movie which divided audiences in Venice. Venice film festival wins on points, lacks knock-out 2011-09-09T13:29:02Z As a critic and author, Mr. Bayley was acclaimed for his dissections of Goethe and Pushkin as well as of Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy and Henry James. John Bayley, Oxford Don Who Wrote of His Wife, Iris Murdoch, Dies at 89 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z German Romanticism was darker and more folkloric, to judge from Goethe’s novel “Elective Affinities” and a moonlit scene by Caspar David Friedrich. Art Review: At Morgan Library, Glories of Nature, Tamed by Man 2010-06-03T21:31:00Z Walser is telling a version of the story that made Goethe famous in the first place, of the sorrowful young artist Werther’s unrequited infatuation with a young woman called Lotte. The Obsession That Inspired Great Poetry, if Not Great Romance 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z Needless to say, all this sounds very impressive, but is Goethe still read outside of an ever-diminishing number of college courses in German literature? A new look at Goethe, a one-time cultural celebrity 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z Biography was, he said, a peculiarly British phenomenon: "If you want a biography of Proust, or Mann, or Goethe, or Strindberg, or Ibsen, you found yourself reading a British writer." Michael Holroyd laments the decline of biography 2011-08-18T18:08:26Z For the grammarians among us, the highlight of the spring will be Mary Norris' appearance at Writers Bloc at the Goethe Institut in Beverly Hills. Spring 2016 books preview: Literary events happening around L.A. 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z And Faust was as relevant in the fifteen-hundreds as he was in the eighteen-hundreds, when Goethe wrote about him, and in the nineteen-forties, when Thomas Mann wrote about him in his novel “Doctor Faustus.” The Slowness of Literature and the Shadow of Knowledge 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z The poem is by Goethe, and Schubert set it too, in his simplest folk style. Celebrating an 18th-Century Composer, Carl Loewe 2012-02-24T21:05:38Z Prefacing Mahler's Rückert Lieder with a group of Hugo Wolf's Goethe settings, the first half had its cautious moments. Renée Fleming/Maciej Pikulski – review 2012-12-10T18:50:49Z There’s also something of the Goethe or Kafka or Dostoevsky protagonist about him, the suffering young solipsist with no ethics or morals or ideology beyond a sense of his own awesomeness. “Buzzard” is the new “Office Space”: An unhinged slacker comedy for the dead-end temp economy 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z Explorer, polymath, friend of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Thomas Jefferson and Simon Bolívar, Alexander von Humboldt was one of the greatest scientists of the 19th century. Shelf life 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z The titles — “The Highwayman,” “The God and the Temple Dancer,” “Goethe in Old Age,” “Death and Mrs. Death,” “The June Bug in Love” — conjure up a never-ending succession of intriguing surprises. Celebrating an 18th-Century Composer, Carl Loewe 2012-02-24T21:05:38Z Goethe began work on his two Faust plays when he was 23 and continued until his death 60 years later, in 1832. Randy Newman's Faust: The Devil Laughs and Cries 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z Perhaps the most moving books in the collection are Dietrich’s volumes of Goethe. Marlene Dietrich’s Marginalia 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z I was a doormat at Oxford reading Goethe, so I was happy that neither he nor his sister Leah paid me much attention. Digested read: Great House by Nicole Krauss 2011-02-21T21:00:00Z I’m trying to imagine Goethe just sitting there listening to this guy go through this endless play, in bad German. ‘It Has It All’: Taking on a Strange, Immense Piano Concerto 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z Somehow, the aura of the grandest Roman copy of the Greek statue, once owned by a 17th-century cardinal and admired by Goethe, was transferred to the damaged bust. When Roman Statues Play Pranks 2010-06-18T15:00:00Z “I thought I could do for Goethe what Dalí does for Dante.” A hotline to Satan: why is the ex-CEO of Vodafone making a film version of Faust? 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z The Goethe Institut-New York will reopen in renovated headquarters on Irving Place on March 28, after spending the last four years in a temporary residence on Spring Street. Even Young Werther Would Be Happy: Goethe Institut-New York to Return to Renovated Home 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z Goethe wrote: “If you want heaven and earth contained in one name/I say ‘Shakuntala’ and all is spoken.” 2010-02-16T21:53:00Z The long second part of the symphony turns, almost operatically, to the final part of Goethe’s “Faust,” an increasingly ecstatic heavenly ascent. Why America got it wrong on Riccardo Chailly and how the Italian conductor is proving it 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z Humm has not only updated Faust, but dared to change Goethe’s ending. A hotline to Satan: why is the ex-CEO of Vodafone making a film version of Faust? 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z He prefers to talk art, not politics, dropping in references to Goethe and Italo Calvino and comparing himself to last year's Nobel literature laureate Mario Vargas Llosa. Wang Xiaofang exposes world of Chinese bureaucracy 2011-02-25T19:19:44Z In darker fiction, Charlotte is the love interest in Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther, and Lolita’s mother in Nabokov’s Lolita, which your parents will explain to you later. What to Expect When Your Name is Charlotte 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z Some 50,000 books were reduced to ashes, including works by Germany's most famous writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who lived in Weimar and knew the duchess. Historic German library restores rare Copernicus book after blaze 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z Certainly this is the case with “Young Goethe in Love,” directed by Philipp Stölzl and released in Germany with the title “Goethe!” | 'Young Goethe in Love': ?Young Goethe in Love? - Review 2011-11-03T23:48:59Z Goethe was the elder statesman of the group, and he wasn’t much of a Romantic himself, identifying more as a realist. These Romantics Celebrated the Self, to a Fault 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z It opened with Wagner's Faust Overture and ended with Liszt's Faust Symphony, both inspired by Goethe's poetic drama. LPO/Jurowski 2010-05-03T21:45:00Z Goethe would not be that surprised to discover a Shakespeare is German season – as is due to begin tomorrow at the Globe – taking place in London. Friends, Germans, countrymen: the long history of 'unser Shakespeare' 2010-10-06T12:01:00Z In spite of his professorial tone, Goethe’s a goner — he’s the one in the process of changing, and the rest of the novel follows him through the various feverish stages of an obsession. The Obsession That Inspired Great Poetry, if Not Great Romance 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z That word refers to the high-minded, educated middle stratum, a cultural elite whose members, typically, refused to believe that the country of Schiller and Goethe could entrust their fate to a barbarian. Books of The Times: ‘Not I,’ a Memoir by Joachim Fest 2014-02-18T22:45:43Z Neophytes will certainly be bored, yet Goethe aficionados will learn a lot. A new look at Goethe, a one-time cultural celebrity 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z One of the livelier scenes shows the residents of Rudolstadt gathered at their windows to glimpse Goethe’s return from a sojourn in Italy. ‘Beloved Sisters,’ Directed by Dominik Graf 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z In the 18th century, wine from Tokaj was delivered to kings and rulers throughout Europe, and it was enjoyed by Beethoven, Schubert, Voltaire and Goethe. In Slovakia, a Wine Region Waiting for the Spotlight 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z Grace's character is a nod to Goethe and another departure that Marlowe may not have foreseen. Faustus doctored as Marlowe gets a monster-inspired makeover 2013-02-28T12:47:03Z In the Alps of Goethe and James Bond We were hiking in fog and drizzle up the barren slopes of Mount Schilthorn, a 9,748-foot-high peak overlooking the Lauterbrunnen Valley in Switzerland. | Switzerland: Hiking the Alps of Goethe and James Bond 2013-05-01T18:06:17Z As young men he and his brother, Wilhelm, were lights in Berlin’s intellectual circle which, though admittedly small, included Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller. Man of the world 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z The other is Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, whose first novel, “The Sorrows of Young Werther,” with its celebration of emotional extremes, anticipated the Young Romantics by a couple of decades. These Romantics Celebrated the Self, to a Fault 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z Adama, our charming host, was an Afropolitan of the highest order: a Muslim musician with a Viennese wife, studying German at the Goethe Institute, uninterested in living anywhere else apart from Burkina Faso. Taiye Selasi: "I'm Afropolitan dammit!' 2013-03-22T10:54:01Z Part 2, which sets the mystical concluding episode of Goethe’s “Faust,” had a refreshing naturalness and dramatic flow, while packing plenty of heaven-bursting power and exuberance. Music Review: Finding the Right Pace (and Support Crew) for a Marathon 2010-10-22T22:44:00Z They also shared the concert platform in Brahms's Requiem and in lieder recitals, recording Wolf's Goethe and Mörike settings. Evelyn Lear 2012-07-16T12:47:17Z John Barry: Right, as Goethe said, you look where you have light. This Virus Hunter Hunter Fought a Pandemic Using a Garage Full of Guinea Pigs 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z For example, Karsten says streets got named after poets and composers—Goethe, Schiller, Mozart, Beethoven. How an American Psychiatrist Inspired a Street Name in Germany--and Why That's So Unusual 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z Besides diplomats and embassy staff, Russia also considers Germans working at German cultural institutions — like the Goethe Institute — to be part of that number. Germany closes Russian consulates in a tit-for-tat dispute with Moscow. 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z Germany is planning to remove scores of employees working at its missions in Russia after Moscow imposed limits on the numbers allowed to work in the country, including teachers and employees at the Goethe Institute. Germany to shut down Russian consulates in tit-for-tat move 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z They include teachers at the German school in Moscow and staff at the Goethe Institute cultural association. Hundreds of expelled Germans set to leave Russia 2023-05-27T04:00:00Z The defendants, he told “60 Minutes,” “would never have been murderers had it not been for the war. These were people who could quote Goethe, who loved Wagner, who were polite.” Ben Ferencz, last living Nuremberg prosecutor, dies at 103 2023-04-08T04:00:00Z The leaflets were highly literary, often citing writers and philosophers including Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Plato and Aristotle, as well as the Bible. Traute Lafrenz Page, member of White Rose anti-Nazi resistance, dies at 103 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z The group’s fliers, quoting from Goethe, Schiller, Aristotle, Lao Tzu and the Bible, urged passive resistance and sabotage of the Nazi project. Traute Lafrenz, Last Survivor of Anti-Hitler Group, Dies at 103 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z "We need more women choosing economics as a major, but we also need to keep these young women in the field," Goethe Professor Nicola Fuchs-Schuendeln said. In economics, women's voices still struggle to be heard 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z “A nation that produced Goethe could not possibly go to the bad,” he once told Bullitt. Review | How Freud escaped the Nazis, with the help of well-connected friends 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z Friends thought Mr. Vrubel was crazy for wanting to paint on the Berlin Wall, a relic of a bygone era, he recounted in a 2013 interview with the government-funded Goethe Institute. Dmitri Vrubel, Who Planted a Kiss on the Berlin Wall, Dies at 62 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z In the 1950s and ’60s, Auden hoped he might be regarded as “a minor Atlantic Goethe” even as his poetry grew loose and talky, his diction occasionally recondite. Review | Auden was more than a great poet. Two books remind us why. 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z Dowd contrasts Trump to the monster in Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein," who begins with "elegance of mind and sweetness of temperament, reading Goethe's 'The Sorrows of Young Werther' and gathering firewood for a poor family." Yes, Donald Trump is an "American monster": But he wasn't built by a mad scientist 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z And I could hardly believe that she was able to summon a poem by the German poet Goethe” at “such a moment.” The Holocaust survivor who fell in love with her American liberator 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z Should people have switched away from German and read Johann Wolfgang von Goethe only in translation because Adolf Hitler spoke German? Opinion | To hold war crime trials, the U.S. can’t have its cake and eat it too 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z One of the few items she grabbed on her way out was a book she loves on the great German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, which she clutched to her chest in the tent. Ukrainians escape embattled enclaves with grievous wounds and stories of fires not put out 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z Goethe’s novel told of a sensitive young man whose hopeless love for a virtuous married woman drives him to suicide. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The lectures’ topics ranged from Goethe’s “Faust” and Wagner’s “Der Ring des Nibelungen” to Mann’s own “Magic Mountain,” and they attracted an appreciative audience. Review | How Thomas Mann escaped to America and waged a moral battle against Hitler 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z Jan Pieter Krahnen, a finance expert at Frankfurt's Goethe University and adviser to the German finance ministry, said the short-term consequences of a ban are opaque, and might backfire. Explainer: Europe's banks fear payment system could be casualty of Russia-Ukraine crisis 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z He received his Ph.D. in 1997 from Goethe University Frankfurt, before he was appointed to work as an assistant professor at the Scripps Research Institute in California. Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded to Scientists for Tool That Builds Better Catalysts 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z The “country of his soul” was Germany, which awarded Le Carré its Goethe medal, for individuals who “have performed outstanding service for the German language and international cultural dialogue”, in 2011. John le Carré, chronicler of Englishness, died Irish, son reveals 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z But he urged anyone struggling to hang in there and quoted authors Dale Carnegie and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Anthony Hopkins marks 45 years of sobriety after nearly 'drinking myself to death' 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z When he receives my Goethe documents, he turns to his colleague and inquires about something in brisk German. 'Try again next time': my three visa rejections 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z The vision of Goethe’s famous final lines of “Faust” are of a place beyond time in which parable becomes reality; imperfection, perfection; the indescribable, realized. Miss the ecstasy and extravagance of Mahler's Eighth? You're not alone 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z They became friends when Semprún, a philosophy student, referenced Goethe, who had lived not far from Buchenwald. For Some Holocaust Survivors, Even Liberation Was Dehumanizing 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z “Our normal daily things lost their importance,” says the theoretical physicist at the Goethe University Frankfurt, in Germany. The pandemic mixed up what scientists study – and some won’t go back 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z A 47-year-old political science professor at the city’s Goethe University, Wagemann was happy to be back, but sad to remain silent when it would normally be time for hymns and hosannas. No hymns, no Communion: Germany's reopened churches offer a road map, but a new outbreak shows the risks 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z The Goethe staff assure me that I will get the visa this time. 'Try again next time': my three visa rejections 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z The highest, most mystical level of being and beyond-being for Goethe, and for Mahler, is love. Miss the ecstasy and extravagance of Mahler's Eighth? You're not alone 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z As a gift, the officer took Semprún for a tour of Goethe’s house nearby. For Some Holocaust Survivors, Even Liberation Was Dehumanizing 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z “A team of biochemists and virologists at Goethe University in Frankfurt and the Frankfurt University Hospital were able to observe how human cells change upon infection with SARS-CoV-2,” explained Goethe University in a statement. Potential cell targets for treating COVID-19 discovered by scientists in Germany 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z He made his debut in a small part as the Prince of Orange in Goethe’s “Egmont,” and it was “almost a disaster,” he told The Times. Max von Sydow, the Swedish star of Bergman films, 'The Greatest Story Ever Told' and 'The Exorcist,' has died 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z “That’s what I was just asking my colleague here. It is an issue we sometimes have with Goethe. You are supposed to have the documents that prove your grant, as well as your work documents.” 'Try again next time': my three visa rejections 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z Jehnny Beth is in her childhood bedroom, leaning on a copy of Goethe’s Faust the size of a phone book. Jehnny Beth of Savages: 'Sex is a wonderful way to test yourself' 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z The proximity of art to murder — “Europe,” Dr. Steiner once observed, “is the place where Goethe’s garden almost borders on Buchenwald” — was a theme that ran throughout his entire oeuvre. George Steiner, renowned literary critic, dies at 90 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z Scientists cultivated the virus in colon cells taken from two infected people returning from Wuhan, China, according to the Goethe University statement. Potential cell targets for treating COVID-19 discovered by scientists in Germany 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z But at the “Totally East” exhibit at the Goethe Institute Pop-Up in Seattle last month, Fischer and Loewe lingered over a panel of photographs titled “Tenderness.” 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, German-born Seattleites reflect on life in a divided world 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z I tell the Goethe staff in Yaoundé to count the 90 days well. 'Try again next time': my three visa rejections 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z Dimmeler, a specialist in cardiovascular regeneration at Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany, describes RNA as a “biologically and mechanistically attractive target”. How RNA therapies could be used to tackle the world’s biggest killer 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z “We know now that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day’s work at Auschwitz in the morning.” George Steiner, renowned literary critic, dies at 90 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z Researchers used the mePROD method, a mass spectrometry technique recently developed by Institute for Biochemistry II at Goethe University. Potential cell targets for treating COVID-19 discovered by scientists in Germany 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z The street names around the synagogue are named after thinkers who opened up German culture to the world: Goethe, Schiller and Humboldt. 'I worried it would be a matter of time': Halle grieves after shootings 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z “All your Goethe documents look great. But I don’t have enough information about your job. All I see is your work attestation.” 'Try again next time': my three visa rejections 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z Goethe recognized that all the parts of a flower, from pistil to sepal, are modified leaves. The Bauhaus at 100: science by design 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z Beethoven’s overture to Goethe’s “Egmont” compellingly condenses the drama of overthrowing totalitarian rule. Review: The Budapest Festival Orchestra takes over the Bowl 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z Then these gave way to posters of bands I did not like but wanted to like, a cartoon rendering of Silicon Valley, and, inexplicably, an image of Goethe. How Posters Became Art 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z It’s not just Americans who are arriving—Germans lead the march into Italy, as they have done since Goethe’s time—but Americans stand out, because we have so much farther to go to get there. Europe and America Seventy-Five Years After D Day 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z “There is astonishing richness and variety,” Goethe wrote. Antonio Salieri’s Revenge 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z She constructed her textiles in adherence to Goethe’s conception of nature’s consistencies of growth and form. The Bauhaus at 100: science by design 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z Weimar, a small city blessed with outsized glories—the center of the German Enlightenment and the home of Goethe and Schiller—was now a scraped canvas. The Man Who Built the Bauhaus 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z He was friends with other intellectual giants of his time, including polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and Charles Darwin acknowledged the intellectual debt he owed Humboldt. Alexander von Humboldt: the graphic novel 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z Translation wasn’t just for Tolstoy and Goethe anymore. Perspective | Current foreign fiction has found new U.S. readers. 9/11 is part of the reason. 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z Since Salieri’s death “has not yet happened,” Zelter wrote to Goethe, “he has now composed a much shorter one, and says: that is good enough for him.” Antonio Salieri’s Revenge 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z The phrase was invented by Goethe, who used it in his “Confessions of a Beautiful Soul,” a fictional memoir in which a Pietist noblewoman describes her spiritual life. Hermann Hesse’s Arrested Development 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z “The message was very clear: Don’t quarrel. Get together. Be the strong Germany that Europe needs,” said Sigrid Rossteutscher, an analyst at Frankfurt’s Goethe University. Merkel’s troubles mount as her party stumbles in German regional elections 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z In Germany, Goethe declared that “savage nations, uneducated people, and children have a great predilection for vivid colors.” The Myth of Whiteness in Classical Sculpture 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z In thrall to Dante, Shakespeare, Goethe, Walter Scott, and, especially, Byron, he took the tenor if not the identity of his subjects from their pages. Delacroix’s High Performance 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z Salieri may not stop time as Mozart does, but the opera unfurls with captivating ease, and you understand why a discerning listener like Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was bewitched. Antonio Salieri’s Revenge 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z Indeed, many of his books are not just novels of education—the Bildungsroman that had been a classic genre in European literature since Goethe—but specifically novels of schooling. Hermann Hesse’s Arrested Development 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z The judgment opens with a quote from Goethe: “I am what I am, so take me as I am.” Opinion | India’s Riotous Triumph of Equality 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z On Thursday, India’s Supreme Court effectively excised Section 377, responding to a bundle of six petitions; the first sentence of the judgment quoted Goethe: “I am what I am, so take me as I am.” India’s Historic Gay-Rights Ruling and the Slow March of Progress 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Goethe was an idol of the members of the Transcendental Club, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Emerson, generous as ever, had given Louisa the run of his library when she was in her teens. How “Little Women” Got Big 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z Shakespeare and Goethe don’t factor in big history. Review | A journey through billions of years that nails home the point: Life is a miracle 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z Burr checked out a book by Voltaire, while Hamilton returned a book by Goethe. President Washington, Your Library Books Are Overdue 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z Marlee Tucker, an ecologist at Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany who was not part of the research, was surprised that any kind of human activity is enough for mammals to see people as a threat. Many animals are shifting from day to night to avoid people 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z Is it, for example, more akin to Goethe and The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, where he declares: Zuckerberg needs a wizard to clean up Facebook’s mess 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z There, at 19, Grünberg went to study physics at the Goethe University Frankfurt; he then did a PhD at the Technical University of Darmstadt. Peter Grünberg (1939-2018) 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z Goethe and Goebbels share a crammed bookshelf in the living room of their 19th century Viennese apartment. A Very German Love Story: When Old Left and Far Right Share a Bedroom 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z That a group of students at a public university would voluntarily submit themselves to Goethe, Melville and Dante surely suggests that young people crave meaning. Millennials Hit the Great Books 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z The bomb, thought to have been dropped by the British Royal Air Force, had been discovered at a construction site for faculty buildings on the edge of Goethe University. Thousands Evacuated in Berlin After World War II Bomb Is Found 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z Nevertheless, he began studying physics at the Goethe University in Frankfurt and went on to the Technical University of Darmstadt, also in Germany. Peter Gruenberg, Nobel-winning scientist who advanced computer technology, dies at 78 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z As Goethe wrote: “misunderstandings and neglect create more confusion in this world than trickery and malice.” Donald Trump isn’t waging war on science. He just doesn’t care 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z A few years ago, Marlee Tucker, a biologist at the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre at Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany, and other researchers decided to launch a much wider scale study. Human activity slashes mammal stomping grounds by up to two-thirds 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z There’s likely to be more than one explanation for the animals’ reduced mobility, says Marlee Tucker, a macro-ecologist at Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany, who led the study. Animals worldwide stick close to home when humans move in 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z Although the genomics era led many plant biologists away from morphology, the latest generation of technological advances is steering them back towards the questions that occupied Goethe and Darwin. The lost art of looking at plants 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z Last February, two German archaeologists from the Goethe University in Frankfurt were kidnapped from an excavation site in Kaduna state. Nigeria: two Americans and two Canadians kidnapped in ambush 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z On the subject of reading, Mr. Corker might want to spend time reading Goethe’s “Faust” — which I believe has a section on Mr. Corker’s recent vote to approve the tax bill. Opinion | Retirement Tips for the Age of Trump 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z Surprisingly, the city’s most significant site, the Goethe House, was not even mentioned. Opinion | The Goethe House is a must for Frankfurt tourists 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z The German news agency dpa reported that the Goethe Tower, a popular destination for visitors in Frankfurt’s city forest, burned down early Thursday. Landmark wooden tower burns down in Frankfurt 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z A ‘plant archetype’: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe asked French botanist Pierre Jean Turpin to draw this imaginary composite plant, showing off a diversity of forms.Credit: The lost art of looking at plants 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z A study by Goethe University Frankfurt found that 39% of forests in the Congo Basin are under severe pressure from hunting. The grasscutter shows why it is hard to stop bushmeat hunting 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z The unexploded bomb was discovered on Tuesday during building work a stone’s throw from the Westend campus of the Goethe University, police said in a statement. WW2 'blockbuster' bomb to force evacuation of 70,000 in Frankfurt 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z They were Western-educated Francophones who read deeply in the European canon, who believed in the “miracle of Greek civilization,” who drew on Plato and Virgil and Pascal and Goethe. Western civilization’s best hope might be post-colonial hybrid 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z Goethe also pursued a plethora of other interests, including natural history, anatomy and mineralogy, and developed a controversial theory of colour. Goethe’s life as a work of art 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z As Goethe said, There is nothing so frightful as ignorance in action. Heart Attack Survivors Often Fail to Take Statins 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z Canova was celebrated while he was alive, with Goethe and Wordsworth in the chorus of admirers. Finally, From Italy, the Full George Washington 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z The quote is attributed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, but it might as well apply to three local residents who use art to help other people. EXCHANGE: Joliet area residents foster healing the arts 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z And it becomes harder still when your ruling elite’s cosmopolitanism is essentially superficial, more “eating ethnic food and cheering for Obama” than “celebrating negritude while reading Goethe.” Western civilization’s best hope might be post-colonial hybrid 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z Goethe was a man of protean talents, interests, appetites and achievements who lived through a particularly tempestuous period of wars and revolutions in Europe. Goethe’s life as a work of art 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z She corresponded with Goethe and became an accomplished watercolorist. Perspective | Benjamin Franklin’s squirrel died in England in 1772 and was buried there 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z As Link noted, Goethe once said that a good love letter should be “completely incomprehensible, so that friends and lovers would have complete liberty to put true meaning into it.” Christopher Strachey’s Nineteen-Fifties Love Machine 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z In a speech in 2014, Mr Gorsuch framed an exploration of “law’s irony” in terms of a Dickens novel, weaving in references to Burke, Cicero, Demosthenes, Goethe, Kant and Shakespeare. Neil Gorsuch is a good pick for the Supreme Court 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z Goethe once wrote that where there is much light, there is also strong shadow. Shady deal: Italian shop owners in Conegliano fight tax on shadows 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z Six months later, in the spring of 1832, Goethe suddenly fell ill, declined rapidly and died soon afterwards. Goethe’s life as a work of art 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z The nation of Goethe and Schiller and so on. Meet the pro-Russian, anti-Muslim European leader who was just invited to Trump’s White House 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z Also watching was L. R. Goethe, 64, of Mandan, whose route was impeded by the demonstration. Thanksgiving at the Dakota Access pipeline protest camp 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z A brilliant student, she held abiding passions for Judaism and German culture, including Goethe, Nietzsche, Schiller and Schopenhauer. Ruth Gruber, a Fearless Chronicler of the Jewish Struggle, Dies at 105 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z He graduated from Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, where he went on to receive his master’s degree and, in 1961, his doctorate. Reinhard Selten, Whose Strides in Game Theory Led to a Nobel, Dies at 85 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z On reflection, Goethe said, “It would please me if that were still true.” Goethe’s life as a work of art 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z Theoretical physicist Claudius Gros of Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany suggests we do just that. Top stories: A how-to on tabloid science news, a record-breaking lightning bolt, and the body-burning experiment that is upending a Mexican investigation 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z “In the 30s, the overwhelming majority of Germans were decent people, the nation of Goethe and Schiller and so on,” he says. Miloš Zeman: the hardline Czech leader fanning hostility to refugees 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z And if you do come up with something, was it also there back in the days of Goethe, of Martin Luther and of Frederick Barbarossa? Isis is as much an offshoot of our global civilisation as Google 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z In an essay published last month in Astrophysics and Space Science, theoretical physicist Claudius Gros of Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany suggests we do just that. Q&A: Should we seed life on alien worlds? 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z Though considered a German latter-day Shakespeare, Goethe is much less widely read in the English-speaking world than at home. Goethe’s life as a work of art 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z Genetic differences among the four species were comparable to those between polar bears and brown bears, said geneticist Axel Janke of the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre and Goethe University in Germany. Tall tale: study reveals that giraffes are four species, not one 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z In Goethe’s time, the word had a thoroughly positive connotation. What History Teaches Us About Demagogues Like The Donald 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z It is the only Alpine range, Goethe wrote, “that deserves to be called royal.” The Long Dig 2008-09-15T04:00:00Z More than Dante for the Italians, Goethe for the Germans, or Pushkin for Russia, Shakespeare remains an icon for English-speaking peoples throughout the world. Ten ways in which Shakespeare changed the world 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z “Man errs,” Goethe’s God concludes, “till he has ceased to strive.” The 10 best representations of God in culture 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z “There are not too many people in our field who like to discuss Goethe,” Christof Niehrs, a prominent biologist, told me. The Stem-Cell Scandal 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z To get a sense of how Johann Wolfgang von Goethe dominates German literature, we would have to imagine a Shakespeare known to the last inch—a Shakespeare squared or cubed. Life Lessons from Goethe 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z “The Goethe support young artists, but there is usually some German element,” she said. Iran's failed cultural diplomacy in Syria 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Iowa and Nebraska tried to ban instruction at schools in the tongue of Schiller and Goethe; elsewhere, there were efforts to find new names for dachshunds, sauerkraut, hamburgers — even German measles. America’s anti-Muslim hysteria comes to a Virginia school 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z The Neptunists, who counted Goethe among their number, believed that Earth was originally covered in ocean, and that all rocks were formed as deposits on the floor of the ancient seas. Fracking is still not the answer: Gas will not solve the climate-warming problem 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z The name comes from Goethe’s 18th-century novel “The Sorrows of Young Werther,” in which the protagonist, thwarted in his romantic pursuits, takes his own life with a pistol. The dangerously contagious effect of assisted-suicide laws 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z Goethe’s significance is only roughly indicated by the sheer scope of his collected works, which run to a hundred and forty-three volumes. Life Lessons from Goethe 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Many would see a good example in Germany’s own Goethe- Institut, which is funded by the foreign ministry, federal states and private sponsors and operates in 98 countries including Iran and Syria. Iran's failed cultural diplomacy in Syria 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z They were described by renowned German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in the 18th century, bringing the town to the attention of an international literary audience. Limone sul Garda: Where to find the secret to a long life? 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z ‘A talent is formed in stillness,’ wrote Goethe, ‘a character in the stream of the world.’ A writer of monumental appetites and an even bigger ego 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z He attended Goethe University, then immigrated to Detroit, where he lived with an aunt. Henry Krystal, Holocaust Trauma Expert, Dies at 90 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z Finally, Goethe accomplished all this while simultaneously working as a senior civil servant in the duchy of Weimar, where he was responsible for everything from mining operations to casting actors in the court theatre. Life Lessons from Goethe 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z In his time, the German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt was an icon, as famous as Darwin or Goethe. Why Is the Man Who Predicted Climate Change Forgotten? 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z In future, Trotsky believed: "The average human type will rise to the heights of an Aristotle, a Goethe or a Marx." A Point of View: Is it ever right to try to create a superior human being? - BBC News 2015-09-05T04:00:00Z Vidal would dwell at length on his feuds and fixed on the idea, which he took from Goethe, that talent is formed in stillness but character “in the stream of the world”. A life in feuds: how Gore Vidal gripped a nation 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z Goethe was a novelist, poet and playwright who is considered one of the leading figures in Western literature. Bronze bust of German literary giant stolen from NY park 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z Germans began debating the significance of the Goethe phenomenon while he was still in his twenties, and they have never stopped. Life Lessons from Goethe 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z In the classic poem by Goethe, a young sorcerer's apprentice unleashes forces he can't control. Is click and collect too hot for retailers to handle? - BBC News 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z A second complete series, Eugène Delacroix’s illustrations of Goethe’s “Faust,” is on view in the section called “The Literary Impulse.” ‘The Critique of Reason’ Redefines the Meaning of Romantic Art 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z Goethe apparently put it on everything, or at least his mother said he did. Salsa verde is green with possibilities as a sauce, dip or flavoring 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z The Greek justice minister suggested that, as part of his country’s ongoing claims against its old oppressor, he might even seize the Athens property of the Goethe Institute, Germany’s cultural agency. Pointing fingers 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z His lifetime, spanning some of the most monumental disruptions in modern history, is referred to as a single whole, the Goethezeit, or Age of Goethe. Life Lessons from Goethe 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z The assets in question include property belonging to Germany’s archeological school and the Goethe Institute, a non-profit German cultural association. Greece Threatens to Confiscate German Assets Over WWII Reparations 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z Delacroix’s “Faust” suite consists of 17 lithographs and a portrait of Goethe created for a French translation of the text. ‘The Critique of Reason’ Redefines the Meaning of Romantic Art 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z The conference at Goethe University in Frankfurt drew an especially critical audience. E.C.B. Bond-Buying Program Is ‘Pointing in the Right Direction,’ Draghi Says 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z Dogs barking in the street, the building of a bowling alley, even the movement of a weaver's loom -- all drove Goethe to distraction, and to complain to authorities. Can’t focus? Maybe you’re a creative genius. 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z One famous anecdote concerns Goethe and Beethoven, who were together at a spa resort when they unexpectedly met a party of German royalty on the street. Life Lessons from Goethe 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z The influence on science and the arts of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — poet, playwright, novelist, proto-scientist, philosopher and general all-round egghead — is profound. Hues and cry 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z “Goethe saw the images and told Delacroix, ‘You have given such horrific visualization to my tale that you have outdone me,’ ” Ms. Hodermarsky said. ‘The Critique of Reason’ Redefines the Meaning of Romantic Art 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z "At some companies the lemon is already fully squeezed," said Roland Goethe, president of Swissmechanic, the employers' association for companies in the machinery, electronic and metalworking sectors. After SNB shock, 'Swiss Made' may mean more expensive 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z One likely "leaky" genius from the past was German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Can’t focus? Maybe you’re a creative genius. 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z This is partly because Goethe so often cloaks his sophistication in deceptively simple language. Life Lessons from Goethe 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z The name translates as “the choice of Goethe,” and these are, in fact, the former apartments of German poet J.W. Check Into La Scelta Di Goethe: Rome's Hot New Hotel And A Poet's Old Home 2014-11-15T05:00:00Z Johann Wolfgang von Goethe predicted this confusion in 1809, “None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.” Goethe Predicted Dollar Slavery 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z While falling import prices may provide a boost, Goethe judged the overall balance to be negative. After SNB shock, 'Swiss Made' may mean more expensive 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z They are the title of a Bach cantata performed in Weimar, the city of Goethe and Schiller, just 10 miles from Buchenwald. Ten objects that made modern Germany 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z Matthew Arnold saw Goethe as a kind of healer and liberator, calling him the “physician of the Iron Age,” who “read each wound, each weakness” of the “suffering human race.” Life Lessons from Goethe 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Researchers at Germany’s Goethe University in Frankfurt took an empirical stab at determining why users gravitate to bitcoin. Is It Really Worth Your While To Use Bitcoin To Pay Your Dish Bill? 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z "No one reads Shakespeare. Nobody wants Goethe. Know how many books they throw away in Germany?" Linda Grant: 'I have killed my books' 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z Roswitha Wiltschko, a longtime bird navigation researcher at the Goethe University in Frankfurt, said Wednesday’s study seemed very well done but left unanswered important questions about the precise source of the disruptions. Electromagnetic ‘noise’ can disrupt migratory birds’ navigation, study says 2014-05-07T22:42:44Z The auditorium is decorated with grand wooden panelling and the names of literary greats including William Shakespeare and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe are displayed on its walls. Exploring Dylan Thomas's New York 2014-05-02T07:08:19Z For these writers, Goethe seemed to possess something the modern world lacked: wisdom, the ability to understand life and how it should be lived. Life Lessons from Goethe 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Goethe was also working on color theory and Keferstein was interested in the opinion of the celebrated artist which colors to use in his maps. How Colors Revolutionized Geological Mapmaking 2014-04-13T13:22:02Z “Without Mr. Draghi, these countries would still be very risky,” said Thomas Mayer, a senior fellow at the Center of Financial Studies at Goethe Universität in Frankfurt, and an adviser to Deutsche Bank. Banks Take on European Debt, Despite Underlying Problems 2014-01-22T01:07:40Z I did finally find more sceptical locals that evening, back in the new station after a meal in the famous Auerbach's cellar, where Goethe, once a student in Leipzig, set a scene from Faust. Leipzig's city tunnel - late but loved 2013-12-22T01:16:16Z Mersch said in the text of a speech for delivery at Frankfurt's Goethe University. Euro zone has long way to go in climb out of crisis: ECB's Mersch 2013-11-29T09:45:55Z For the modernists, being spiritually sick was a condition of intellectual respectability, and T. S. Eliot wrote that “there is something artificial and even priggish about Goethe’s healthiness.” Life Lessons from Goethe 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Johann Wolfgang von Goethe once said: "Architecture is frozen music." Your Brain on Om: The Science of Mantra 2013-10-02T15:27:00Z Plato believed in the intelligibility of the world, and so did Dante, and so did Maimonides and Aquinas and Al-Farabi, and so did Poussin and Bach and Goethe and Austen and Tolstoy and Proust. The Scientism Sermons 2013-09-22T13:29:00Z Many countries try to expand their global reach and influence with think tanks and cultural organizations such as China’s Confucius Institute and Germany’s Goethe Institute. China's Media Investment In Africa Shows Leadership And Raises Questions 2013-07-22T21:57:00Z It was originally attributed to Goethe but is in fact actually a very loosely based translation from Faust. 18 Inspirational Quotes for Spring 2013-03-22T15:00:00Z At least some of Goethe’s readers took him to be endorsing and glamorizing Werther’s suicide. Life Lessons from Goethe 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z German sites in the Greek capital, including the embassy and Goethe Institute, were under special protection. Merkel tells irate Greeks painful reforms will pay off 2012-10-09T16:39:47Z German sites, including the embassy and Goethe Institute were under special protection. Merkel braves protests on first crisis visit to Greece 2012-10-09T09:09:17Z At the Goethe Institute in Jakarta, an exhibition of Indonesian and German comics was held this month to showcase the work of up-and-coming artists. Indonesian cartoonists keep up with competition 2012-09-27T10:36:54Z The exhibition runs at the Institute Goethe in Abidjan until 10 August. In pictures: Portraits of 1960s Ivory Coast 2012-08-03T00:20:30Z Goethe must have felt much as one might imagine J. D. Salinger felt about Mark David Chapman’s copy of “The Catcher in the Rye”—guilty, but also horrified at being so misread. Life Lessons from Goethe 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z The poet Robert Hass cautioned in his poem “After Goethe”: “The birds are silent in the woods./Just wait: Soon enough/You will be quiet too.” Opinion: Listen to the Soundscape 2012-07-28T23:43:38Z Athens was the first city in the world where Germany established its state-run Goethe cultural institute. Greece vs. Germany: The Real Fireworks Come After the Soccer Match 2012-06-22T14:54:15Z In this densely researched and drily elegant book, Satan is pursued through Augustine, Marlowe, Milton, Shelley, Blake, Goethe, Ambrose Bierce, Auden, and CS Lewis's Screwtape, tales of self-mortification and witch-hunting, painting and the cinema. Non-fiction reviews roundup 2012-06-22T07:00:01Z Psychologists at Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany tested a brief treatment consisting of one session and a follow-up “booster” meeting. Mental Imagery Technique Helps Abuse Victims 2012-06-05T11:45:00.193Z Yet, far from ennobling its hero, “Werther” is actually a warning against what Goethe sees as a consuming spiritual disease. Life Lessons from Goethe 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z His elective affinity—in Goethe's phrase—was the Princess Sayn-Wittgenstein, who with her child had deserted the usual brutal and indifferent husband—in fashionable romances. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Currently, language courses at the Goethe Institute in Athens are oversubscribed as young Greeks improve their skills in the hope of studying or working in Germany. Greece vs. Germany: The Real Fireworks Come After the Soccer Match 2012-06-22T14:54:15Z His exhibition and the rest of the festival runs until 20 May at venues around Abidjan including the Goethe Institute, the Contemporary Art Museum, the Rotonde des Arts, Plateau. In pictures: Celebrating Ivory Coast's large ladies 2012-05-14T07:31:13Z Both Cuvier, who ridiculed him, and Goethe, who never heard of him, passed away three years later. Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement 2012-04-26T02:00:14.960Z Goethe knew his hero’s despair as well as any reader could. Life Lessons from Goethe 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z The illusion that the times of Goethe and Schiller were come again was indulged in by other than sentimental people. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z In like fashion, Goethe, after having studied the principles of the Qur'an, declared: 'If that is Islam, do we not all live in Islam?' The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah 2012-04-25T02:01:04.030Z As to colour, he follows Goethe, and uses strong language against Newton’s theory, for the barbarism of the conception that light is a compound, the incorrectness of his observations, &c. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z Also Goethe and Zelter in their correspondence were, so to speak, on the brink of the truth. Popular scientific lectures 2012-04-24T02:00:17.273Z Goethe spliced this story with that of a young man he barely knew, named Karl Jerusalem, who committed suicide—with a pistol borrowed from Kestner, just as Werther borrows Albert’s pistol for the same purpose. Life Lessons from Goethe 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z The idea of the Goethe Foundation was born at that time. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z That would be in accordance with Goethe’s idea would it not? The Independence Day Horror at Killsbury 2012-04-20T02:00:07.610Z It was on the latter of these journeys that he had the interview with Goethe which was so amusingly described by him in later years. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z Homer, Thucydides, Æschylus, Plato, Virgil, and the rest, as well as Dante, Cervantes, Goethe, and the innumerable host of Continental immortals, can very well wait a bit. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z But Goethe was not in Weimar simply as an ornament; to the dismay of the local aristocracy, he was quickly raised to the highest level of government, becoming the Duke’s most trusted adviser. Life Lessons from Goethe 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z To the average public he was a compound of Casanova, Byron and Goethe, and to this mixture could have been added the name of Stendhal. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z You prize the works of genius—of a Shakespeare, a Goethe, a Voltaire, a Darwin. Is Life Worth Living Without Immortality? A Lecture Delivered Before the Independent Religious Society, Chicago 2012-04-18T02:00:15.717Z Hegel, like Goethe, felt no patriotic shudder at the national disaster, and in Prussia he saw only a corrupt and conceited bureaucracy. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z In Goethe this hostile power stands out as distinctly as Tasso himself, and they act side by side each to his own end. Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z During his first ten years in Weimar, Goethe finished none of the major literary projects he had in hand—he was too busy with paperwork. Life Lessons from Goethe 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Goethe, Humboldt, Platen, Winckelmann, Thorwaldsen, Gregorovius and Liszt—to mention only the first at hand—fluttered to Rome and ascribe to it much of their finer productivity. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z She was planning also a series of German studies, one of which, on Goethe’s Tasso, was completed and published in the New Monthly Magazine for January 1834. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z In this respect it stood to philosophy in somewhat the same relation that the influence of Goethe stood to literature. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z Art beautified these last resting-places, and, as Goethe says, the pagan decorated sarcophagi and funeral urns with the images of life. One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances One of Cleopatra's Nights?Clarimonde?Arria Marcella?The Mummy's Foot?Omphale: a Rococo Story?King Candaules 2012-04-08T02:00:23.693Z This might seem, as it did to many at the time, a waste of Goethe’s genius—like harnessing Pegasus to a cart. Life Lessons from Goethe 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z The idols of his younger years were Bonaparte and Byron, Goethe and Chateaubriand, while in the background hovered the prime corrupter of the nineteenth century and the father of Romanticism, J. J. Rousseau. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z His new duties led him to Strassburg, where he met the young Goethe, on whose poetical development he exercised so potent an influence. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z My knapsack was not very heavy, for it contained scarcely anything but Goethe's poems, and three shirts; so we packed ourselves into a hired carriage, and drove through the grotto of Posilippo to Pozzuoli. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z Versions of it were current in the twelfth and sixteenth centuries; and Goethe reproduced it in his "Bride of Corinth." One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances One of Cleopatra's Nights?Clarimonde?Arria Marcella?The Mummy's Foot?Omphale: a Rococo Story?King Candaules 2012-04-08T02:00:23.693Z But Goethe, with the unerring instinct that seemed to guide him throughout his long life, had chosen the existence he needed—an existence as unlike Werther’s as possible. Life Lessons from Goethe 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z He remembered Goethe and his resignation, caused by a trained dog, at the same theatre. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z He co-operated with a band of young writers at Darmstadt and Frankfort, including Goethe, who in a journal of their own sought to diffuse the new ideas. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z I remembered that Goethe once spoke to me of the 'Sentimental Journey,' and said that it was impossible for any one better to paint what a froward and perverse thing is the human heart. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z We offer a translation from the brief version of Michelet, who accuses Goethe of bad taste for having introduced the Slavic idea of vampirism into a purely Greek story. One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances One of Cleopatra's Nights?Clarimonde?Arria Marcella?The Mummy's Foot?Omphale: a Rococo Story?King Candaules 2012-04-08T02:00:23.693Z Throughout his life, Goethe published scientific theories and “discoveries,” most of which were wrong and roundly ignored by the scientists of his day. Life Lessons from Goethe 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Goethe summed up the literary revolution in his accustomed Olympian manner, saying to Eckermann: "They all come from Chateaubriand." Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z In 1776 he obtained through Goethe’s influence the post of general superintendent and court preacher at Weimar, where he passed the rest of his life. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z Since then I have written a grand piece of music which will probably impress the public at large—the first "Walpurgis Night" of Goethe. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z For the history of Flemish art this 'Descent' possesses as much value as does Goethe's 'Faust' for the history of German literature. Famous European Artists 2012-04-07T02:00:30.487Z But, while he failed to overthrow the Newtonian understanding of optics, Goethe found in science a necessary distraction from self. Life Lessons from Goethe 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z The Faust Symphony intends not at all to embody musically Goethe's poem, but gives, as its title indicates, three character figures, Faust, Gretchen and Mephistopheles. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z His personal relations with Goethe again and again became embittered. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z An expression of Goethe's suddenly recurred to my mind. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z Much of the time was spent in Rome, where Angelica became the friend of Goethe, Herder, and others. Famous European Artists 2012-04-07T02:00:30.487Z This vitalism fit in well with the world view that Goethe had learned from Spinoza, who held that nature is God and God nature. Life Lessons from Goethe 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z All of the six settings of Goethe poems are gems, and Dr. Hueffer quite properly gave each of them a place in his collection of Twenty Liszt Songs. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Through his philosophical writings he became acquainted with many distinguished persons—Goethe, Herder, Princess Amalia of Gallitzin, and especially Jacobi, with whom he had much in common. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z I was obliged to digest the supercilious Menzel, who presumed modestly to depreciate Goethe,—and the supercilious Grabbe, who modestly depreciates Shakspeare,—and the philosophers who proclaim Schiller to be rather trivial! Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z Can we mention a violent act of Raphael's, Goethe's, or Shakespeare's? Famous European Artists 2012-04-07T02:00:30.487Z “All finite beings exist within the infinite,” Goethe wrote. Life Lessons from Goethe 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z "A most welcome novelty is the Chorus of Angels, composed by Liszt in 1849 for the celebration of the hundredth birthday of Goethe," said Mr. Finck. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Germany, not less than England and America, laughs at "the modern mother," who dawdles over Goethe, and is "literary," and wears eyeglasses, while delegating to bottles and goats her peculiar duties. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z The sad news of Goethe's loss makes me feel poor indeed! Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z Goethe, who seems so deeply involved in all that concerns us, who is the author of our mental culture, nowhere opposed events; he turned wherever he could advance most easily. Famous European Artists 2012-04-07T02:00:30.487Z In this way, science performed something like the office of religion, turning Goethe into a kind of modern, rational pagan. Life Lessons from Goethe 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z The question, which of the two surpassed the other, recalled the old problem whether Goethe or Schiller is the greatest German poet. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z The whole number of facts and ideas in an ignorant mind may not exceed two hundred; while in the intellect of a Goethe or a Lessing there may live and revolve twenty thousand. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z Goethe is so friendly and kind to me, that I don't know how to thank him sufficiently, or what to do to deserve it. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z Raphael, Goethe, and Shakespeare had scarcely outward destinies. Famous European Artists 2012-04-07T02:00:30.487Z Yet the book that resulted from this trip, the “Italian Journey,” has little to say about what was going on in Goethe’s heart. Life Lessons from Goethe 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Pauline ApelLiszt's housekeeper at Weimar Here Goethe and Schiller once promenaded in a company that has become historic. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z At great length this model husband illustrates his point, and entirely in the spirit of the noble passage in Goethe. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z Some days after my last letter from Weimar, I wished, as I told you, to set off for this place, and said so during dinner to Goethe, who made no reply. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z Shakespeare's and Goethe's feminine creations inspire the same feeling.... Famous European Artists 2012-04-07T02:00:30.487Z Much of Goethe’s Italian sojourn was spent trying, without success, to transform himself into a painter, and the book he wrote is a record more of things seen than of things felt. Life Lessons from Goethe 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z At the Weimar festival the work preceded Goethe's Tasso, being played as an overture. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Goethe must have had this passage in his mind when he wrote the fine tribute to the dignity of housekeeping in "Wilhelm Meister." Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z I have dreaded this ever since Goethe's death, but when it actually occurs, it is a very different thing. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z Hildebrandt began by painting pictures illustrative of Goethe and Shakespeare; but in this form he followed the traditions of the stage rather than the laws of nature. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z Partly, this was because Goethe took care to steer clear of anything that would commit him to marriage, which he assiduously avoided for as long as he could. Life Lessons from Goethe 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z For composers of musical lyrics Schiller wrote much fewer available poems than Goethe. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Goethe, in the second part of his "Faust," makes her Marguerite's successor in Faust's love. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z I sent Zelter's letter at once to Goethe, who immediately invited me to dinner. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z There he devoted himself to composition, among his work being the entr’actes to Maria Stuart, through which he made Goethe’s acquaintance. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z Things were different in Rome, where Goethe had a liaison, frankly sexual this time, with a Roman widow whose name is not known. Life Lessons from Goethe 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z I spoke to him of Goethe's Faust, which he was obliged to confess he had not read, but about which he soon became as enthusiastic as myself. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Well, Goethe, I think, in the poem was a trifle hazy about the ultimate fate of his lovers; but in the opera there is no doubt about it. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105 October 7, 1893 2012-04-03T02:00:30.460Z That Goethe could write nothing in Switzerland but a few weak poems, and still weaker letters, is to me as incomprehensible as many other things in this world. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z His "Life of Goethe" is undoubtedly a very successful, symmetrical, and comprehensive piece of biography. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z Many in Weimar were shocked by their open cohabitation and by Goethe’s choice of life partner—none more so than Charlotte von Stein, who turned with cold fury on her former spiritual mate. Life Lessons from Goethe 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Once Goethe resigned because against his earnest protest a performing dog was allowed to appear upon the classic boards which first saw the masterpieces of Goethe and Schiller. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Rome, as Goethe truly says, "is a world, and it takes years to find oneself at home in it." Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z Goethe, speaking of him, said "the boy was born on a lucky day." Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z He is one of the sort of men of whom Goethe used to say, "If only they would commit an extravagance even, I should have some hope for them." Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z But Goethe’s persistence also testifies to the continuity of his interests and themes during his entire life. Life Lessons from Goethe 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z What attracted Liszt principally during his first stay at Rome was the religion of art, as it had attracted Goethe before him. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z I have just remembered that Goethe, at the beginning of his first visit to Rome, describes and admires this picture; and he speaks of it in considerable detail. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z Seldom in the course of my life have I so little regretted any resolution as on this occasion, for the following day was by far the most delightful that I ever passed in Goethe's house. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z Huxley and his brethren follow the advice which is the moral and the sum of Goethe's "Faust"—they "grasp into the present," and refuse to "send their thoughts wandering over eternities." Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z Goethe writes with affection about the wide-open world of the actor, which is full of escapades and love affairs, bed tricks and impersonations. Life Lessons from Goethe 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Like Goethe, he might have regarded his first day at Rome as the one of his second birth, as the one on which his true self came to light. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z It was once the fashion to neglect grammar, as it now is with certain people to write illegibly, and, in the days of Goethe, a man thought himself a genius if he could spell badly. The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in all his Relations Towards Society 2012-03-30T02:00:17.867Z He was a profound classical scholar, and has left as a specimen of his knowledge, a correct, graceful and elegant translation of Terence's comedy of Andria, a work greatly approved of by Goethe. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z So rare is it, that the exceptional, the almost solitary instance of Goethe comes up at once, distinct and striking, to the mind. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z “The nobleman tells us everything through the person he presents, but the burgher does not, and should not,” Goethe writes. Life Lessons from Goethe 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z He admitted that when finally his Tasso composition began to take form Byron's Tasso was nearer his heart and thoughts than Goethe's. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Goethe, who saw the small painting of The Battle of Bunker Hill while it was in the hands of M�ller, the engraver, commended it, but criticized its colour and the smallness of the heads. English Painters with a chapter on American painters 2012-03-27T02:00:26.437Z On his return to Germany in 1830, he visited Goethe at Weimar, and there planned his journey V to Italy, a country which all men of genius yearn after, as the promised land of inspiration. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z Goethe's great word expresses most tersely what I mean: Outwardly limited, Boundless to inward. Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered 2012-03-22T02:00:35.350Z But there is no salvation for Faust, whose crime is the one transgression that Goethe can never forgive—solipsism, the refusal to acknowledge the full reality of other people. Life Lessons from Goethe 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z One likes to recall the impression which the purity of this charming book made upon the German Goethe. The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z It includes “The Geography of Hunger,” “The World of Albert Schweitzer,” two volumes of Goethe and a complete set of Charles Dickens. Everything Really is Relative: Einstein's Personal Papers Now a Click Away 2012-03-20T08:50:43Z When in Rome, Felix Mendelssohn began the grand Cantata of the Walpurgis Night, to Goethe's words, at which he worked for some years. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z There she found two rather agreeable men—Goethe and Schiller. Dorothy and other Italian Stories 2012-03-18T02:00:18.513Z But they are the opposite of solemn; Goethe delights in his burlesque Mephistopheles, always mocking and jesting, as he does in the wild coincidences and improbabilities of Wilhelm’s career. Life Lessons from Goethe 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z The great masters of thought, like Goethe, Shakespeare, Emerson, Tennyson, and Bryant, have seen deeper. Special Method in the Reading of Complete English Classics In the Grades of the Common School 2012-03-17T02:01:04.053Z And both in this work and in his "Anthropogenie" he quotes the words of Goethe, that "matter can never exist and act without soul, the soul can never exist and act without matter." A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z I wrote this before going to see Goethe, early in the forenoon, after a walk in the park; but I could not find a moment to finish my letter till now. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z He owes much to their thought as they owed much to French thought; Goethe has said as much; and of Voltaire and Chamfort, Schopenhauer was a disciple. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z At the age of eighty-two, dying of a painful heart condition, Goethe’s last words were “More light!” Life Lessons from Goethe 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Still more so are Dickens and Eliot and Shakespeare and Goethe. Special Method in the Reading of Complete English Classics In the Grades of the Common School 2012-03-17T02:01:04.053Z This taste for directing theatrical representations was shared, perhaps we might say followed, by his great German admirer Goethe. Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works 2012-03-14T02:00:25.570Z I thought to myself, this was indeed the Goethe of whom people will one day say, that he was not one single individual, but consisted of several little Goethiden. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z But Sanine is fashioned of sterner stuff than Goethe's romance, and if it be "dangerous," then all the better. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Indeed, Goethe was hostile to both the French Revolution and the German nationalist movement that sprang up in reaction to it. Life Lessons from Goethe 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Concerning such I will only say with Goethe, I hope I shan’t go to heaven with that lot! Satires And Profanities 2012-03-14T02:00:24.637Z From this point of view we may call Voltaire emphatically the representative writer of the eighteenth century, as Goethe called him, in the highest sense, the representative writer of France.” Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works 2012-03-14T02:00:25.570Z Yesterday evening I was at a party at Goethe's, and played alone the whole evening,—the Concert-St�ck, the Invitation � la Valse, and Weber's Polonaise in C, my three Welsh pieces, and my Scotch Sonata. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z She used her lovers for "copy"; and for that matter Byron and Goethe did the same. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Goethe belonged to the courtly past, when artists were the clients of princes, while Beethoven represented the Romantic future, when princes would clamor to associate with artists. Life Lessons from Goethe 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Switching from her fluent English to halting, phonetic German, she concluded with a line by the German poet Goethe. Merkel and I.M.F. Chief Are Friendly Opponents On Europe?s Debts 2012-03-10T04:21:18Z The restlessness of Voltaire has been contrasted with the repose of Goethe, and Gallic fury with calm Teutonic strength. Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works 2012-03-14T02:00:25.570Z I have just received your letter, which brings me the intelligence of Goethe's illness. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z Wise Goethe said: "The point is for a work to be thoroughly good and then it is sure to be classical." Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Historians dispute whether the incident actually took place, but if it didn’t the story is arguably even more revealing; the event became famous because it symbolized the way people thought about Goethe and his values. Life Lessons from Goethe 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z It is but one of the many modes in which Helena—to quote Goethe—has fascinated the German Faust. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z Voltaire might have been as calm as Goethe had he been indifferent to everything but his own culture and comfort. Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works 2012-03-14T02:00:25.570Z Since I left Vienna I have partly composed Goethe's first "Walpurgis Night," but have not yet had courage to write it down. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z Goethe has told us that because of his limitations we may recognise a master. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Goethe’s fame notwithstanding, he is strangely neglected in the English-speaking world. Life Lessons from Goethe 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Then great Goethe saw and wrote of similar flashes of light around Oriental Poppies; and soon other folk saw them also—naturalists and everyday folk. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z Ay, Goethe, but in proportion to their force of aspiration is their height. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z I am therefore restricted to Goethe's Poems, and assuredly these are suggestive enough, and always new. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z Mr. Bragdon approvingly quotes Goethe's expression "frozen music," applied to Gothic architecture. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z English readers are notoriously indifferent to the poets of other cultures, and Goethe’s poems, unfortunately, seldom come across vividly in translation. Life Lessons from Goethe 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z If Shakespeare is the commanding originating genius of England, and Goethe of Germany, Hamilton must occupy that place among Americans. Famous American Statesmen 2012-03-01T03:00:26.167Z Numbers learning German at the Goethe Institute - the German Cultural Centre - have soared in the past few months in Athens. Anti-German mood grips Greece 2012-02-27T11:06:43Z This winter I am reading the works of Goethe, the great German author. Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 12, March 22, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside 2012-02-24T03:00:26.570Z Coudray, who was present when the poet died, left a manuscript on "The Last Days and the Death of Goethe," which has been published. The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women (Real and Traditional) 2012-02-22T03:00:24.020Z The very simplicity of Goethe’s language makes his poetry practically untranslatable. Life Lessons from Goethe 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z I believe a very different impression of their estimate of themselves and their doings will be received by any one who reads the conversations of Wordsworth or Goethe. Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things 2012-02-20T03:00:15.843Z It is the genius of the earth which is acting in them—the earth-spirit, Maeterlinck might have said with Goethe. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z The most unlike minds and characters receive their dues with entire impartiality; Goethe, Lessing, Novalis, Jean Paul, were each in kind honored. Transcendentalism in New England A History 2012-02-18T03:00:16.210Z The Murray III. who used to show us these treasures with reverent pride, and who could boast that he had known Byron, Scott, and Goethe, died not long ago. A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors 2012-02-17T03:00:36.500Z English speakers are more hospitable to fiction in translation, and yet when was the last time you heard someone mention “Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship” or “Elective Affinities,” Goethe’s long fictions? Life Lessons from Goethe 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z The slightest manifestation of jealousy or self-complacency is enough to261 mark a second-rate character of the intellect; and I fear that especially in Goethe, such manifestations are neither few nor slight. Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things 2012-02-20T03:00:15.843Z In short, Maeterlinck is a socialist much as Goethe was a patriot. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z In the "Dial," Wordsworth is mentioned with honor; not discussed as Goethe was, but pleasantly talked about as a well-known friend. Transcendentalism in New England A History 2012-02-18T03:00:16.210Z Now, I pray you, do not think I am saying that there is a “wisdom religion” in Fetish, or anything like that, or that Fetish priests are Spinozas and Goethes—far from it. West African studies 2012-02-15T03:00:28.537Z Victorian intellectuals revered Goethe as the venerable Sage of Weimar. Life Lessons from Goethe 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Tieck has led one school, Goethe another; and if officious followers attempted to push them into rivalry, each knew his own place too well for such unnatural feud to endure. Tales From the 'Phantasus', etc. of Ludwig Tieck 2012-02-13T03:00:19.620Z Like Lessing and Goethe, he had no respect for his professors. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z Goethe and Richter were his heroes: their methods and opinions are of the greatest account with him; and he leaves nothing unexplained of the intellectual foundations on which they builded. Transcendentalism in New England A History 2012-02-18T03:00:16.210Z I could quote many more passages from acknowledged philosophers, particularly from Goethe. West African studies 2012-02-15T03:00:28.537Z Thomas Carlyle implored the reading public to “close thy Byron, open thy Goethe”—which was as much as to say, “Grow up!” Life Lessons from Goethe 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Excepting, perhaps, Goethe, no one knew his own age better than Tieck: he is a modern poet in every sense of the word; and that is why we claim so high a place for him. Tales From the 'Phantasus', etc. of Ludwig Tieck 2012-02-13T03:00:19.620Z Well, probably the fact is that Maeterlinck is no more a "socialist" than Goethe was a "patriot." Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z The pages of the "Dial" abounded in references to Goethe's ideas and writings. Transcendentalism in New England A History 2012-02-18T03:00:16.210Z It may be that Homer, Shakespeare, Goethe, basking upon the whole in the sunshine of life, drew little supplementary force from its trials and agitations. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z |
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