Poetry and Truth from My Own Life (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Johann Goethe
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Time of Work: 1749-1775
- Setting: Frankfurt, Leipsic, and Strausberg, in Germany
- Principal Characters: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Cornelia Goethe, Johann George Schlosser, Gretchen, Johann Gottfried Von Herder, Frederica Elisabetha Brion, Lili Schonemann
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: Authors or writers, Europe or Europeans, Poetry or poets, Eighteenth century, Drama or dramatists, Germany or German people, Romanticism
- Locales: Frankfurt, Germany, Leipsic, Germany, Strausberg, Germany
While there is more truth than poetry in the romantic reminiscence of the aging Goethe, AUS MEINEM LEBEN; DICTUNG, UND WAHRHEIT, known to English readers as POETRY AND TRUTH FROM MY OWN LIFE, was called by Thomas Mann one of the best and most interesting autobiographies in the world. He termed it a first-person novel revealing how genius grows, how good fortune and worth combine in happy circumstance, how personality develops.
Divided into three parts and twenty books, the autobiography was written between 1809 and 1831. If any theme binds the recollections...
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