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...Charles A. Krummel Copyright © 1923 by Duke University Press 1923 Byron and Goethe Charles A. Krummel Trinity College As we approach the year 1924 and with it the centennial anniversary of Lord Byron s death, it is only natural that we should recall and study more closely his relations...

...Alfred Werner Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 GOETHE IN AMERICA ALFRED WERNER IF MARK TWAIN S famous definition of the classics as some­ thing that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read is correct, Goethe s works are not even classics as far as this country...

...Walter Sullivan Ivory Towers and Sacred Founts: The Artist as Hero in Fiction from Goethe to Joyce . By Beebe Maurice . New York : New York University Press , 1964 . Pp. vii , 323 . $6.50 . Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 Book Reviews 415 other their monographs...

...Erwin G. Gudde Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 GOETHE AND HIS FAUST ERWIN G. GUDDE HE CHARACTER of Faust is a product of the intellectual revolution which shook the Western World in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. When the fetters of scholasticism were broken, when a new...

...Clement Vollmer Goethe the Scientist . By Steiner Rudolf ; translated by Wannamaker Olin Dantziger . New York : Anthroposophic Press , 1950 . Pp. 280 . $3.50 . Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 Book Reviews 285 Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales By William...

...Charles A. Krummel Copyright © 1932 by Duke University Press 1932 GOTTFRIED KELLER S ESTIMATE OF GOETHE CHARLES A. KRUMMEL IN THIS Goethe-centennial year it might be of special in­ terest to determine, as far as available sources will permit, what some of the outstanding German literary men...

...Herman Salinger Goethe’s Faust: A Literary Analysis . By Atkins Stuart . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1958 . Pp. xiv , 290 . $6.00 . Goethe’s Faust: Part One. Newly Translated . By Jessup Bertram . New York : Philosophical Library , 1958 . Pp. 224 . $3.75...

...Charles A. Krummel Half a Hundred Thralls to Faust: A Study Based on the British and the American Translators of Goethe’s Faust—1823-1949 . By Frantz Adolf Ingram . Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press , 1949 . Pp. xx , 315 . $4.00 . Copyright © 1951 by Duke...

... and sandwiches weaving his way securely in and out, formed an unforgettable picture. And this was Weimar, the city of Goethe and Schiller and of the diminutive court of Duke Carl August! Weimar had been to me a city of dreams, of quaint beings in eighteenth century powder and crinoline whose movements were more...

...- dental music to Goethe’s tragedy Egmont,the Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung (hereafter AmZ) issued a special supplement to its May 30, 1821, edition. Author Friedrich Mosengeil lamented that, due...

...Erwin G. Gudde Copyright © 1941 by Duke University Press 1941 AARON BURR IN WEIMAR ERWIN G. GUDDE A ARON BURR was the first of the many Americans to cross the 21 threshold of the stately residence on the Frauenplan of Weimar and to pay his respects to the illustrious Goethe. He was also...

..., . . . This is not the place to argue back lest the layman become more baffled and discouraged than ever. For the book is, along with debatable matters, rich in illumination and fresh critical observations on Chaucer s genius. P. F. Baum. Goethe the Scientist. By Rudolf Steiner; translated by Olin Dantziger Wannamaker. New...

... was one of the chief collaborators in the production of the massive, definitive edition of Goethe s works (Sophienausgabe). He wrote about thirty volumes, mostly in the various fields of philosophy, but with two distinctly special interests, Goethe and the cult of anthroposophism. Anthroposophism sig­...

... jealous of the power of the priests. Actu­ ally, Voltaire does not belong merely to the history of culture but to history, for he ruled intellectual Europe in a broader sense than Goethe did afterwards, in spite of the fact that the latter was a prime minister. Though Voltaire concerned himself...

... on. The world of culture is grateful still for that wonderful account of the great individual Benvenuto Cellini, who possessed so many means of self expression and who long ago lived himself out in so many ways. And few books possess more of human interest, though dealing with an individual, than does Goethe s...

... the acquaintance of Lord Byron with his American admirer have been carefully preserved by members of her family, and have recently been presented to the Goethe Collection in the Yale University Library by the granddaughters mentioned. Even the rose, first presented by the Countess Guiccioli, and now encased...

... and critic of them all, this little book is indispensable. WASHINGTON, D. C. SIDNEY S. ALDERMAN Goethe s Faust: A Literary Analysis. By Stuart Atkins. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1958. Pp. xiv, 290. $6.00. Goethe s Faust: Part One. Newly Translated. By Bertram Jessup. New York: Philosophical Library...

... to our knowledge of the Canadian commonwealth. Goethe's Life-Poem. By Denton J. Snider. St. Louis: Sigma Pub­ lishing Company, 1915, 601 pp. A sympathetic and yet scholarly life of Goethe in English for the general reader would be welcomed and would fill at once a wide field of usefulness. The many...

... listed under Goethe and six under Longfellow, but al­ most two hundred under H. A. Ratterman. The index refers, how­ ever, to about two hundred eighty items on Goethe, and many more on his writings. Abbreviations and the condensed form of the entries are practical and clear. The work should...

... for bread offered the suffering poet. Indeed, he had also received the best of wine in the goblet of purest gold, craved by Goethe s singer. Since the death of Goethe in 1832, no writer has held so conspic­ uous a place as Ibsen in the eyes of the world. Of all writers of his time, Tolstoi not excepted, he...