0
    • Elementary Secondary Higher Ed Common Reads
    0 0
    Download high-resolution image

    Italian Journey

    1786-1788

    Author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    Translated by W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Mayer
    Paperback
    $19.00 US
    Penguin Adult HC/TR | Penguin Classics
    On sale Dec 01, 1992 | 512 Pages | 9780140442335
    Add to cart Add to list Exam Copies

    Goethe's account of his passage through Italy from 1786 to 1788 is a great travel chronicle as well as a candid self-portrait of a genius in the grip of spiritual crisis.

    For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
    Italian Journey - Goethe Translated by W. H. Auden and Elizabeth Mayer

    Introduction by W. H. Auden and Elizabeth Mayer
    Part One
    From Carlsbad to the Brenner, September 1786
    From the Brenner to Verona, September 1786
    From Verona to Venice, September 1786
    Venice, October 1786
    From Ferrara to Rome, October 1786
    Rome, First Roman Visit, October 1786-February 1787
    Part Two
    Naples, February-March 1787
    Sicily, March-May 1787
    Naples, May-June 1787
    Part Three
    Rome, Second Roman Visit, June 1787-April 1788
    June 1787
    July 1787
    August 1787
    September 1787
    October 1787
    November 1787
    December 1787
    January 1788
    February 1788
    March 1788
    Index

    Before he was thirty, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe had proven himself a master of the novel, drama, and lyric poetry. But even more impressive than his versatility was his unwillingness ever to settle into a single style or approach; whenever he used a literary form, he made it something new. Born in 1749 to a well-to-do family in Frankfurt, he was sent to Strasbourg to earn a law degree. There, he met the poet-philosopher Herder, discovered Shakespeare, and began to write poetry. His play Götz von Berlichingen (1773) made him famous throughout Germany. He was invited to the court of the Duke of Saxe-Weimar, where he quickly became a cabinet minister. In 1774 his novel of Romantic melancholy, The Sorrows of a Young Werther, electrified all of Europe. Soon he was at work on the first version of his Faust, which would finally appear as a fragment in 1790. In the 1780s, Goethe visited England and immersed himself in classical poetry. The next decade saw the appearance of Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, his novel of a young artist's education, and a wealth of poetry and criticism. He returned to the Faust material around the turn of the century and completed Part 1 in 1808. The later years of his life were devoted to a bewildering array of pursuits: research in botany and a theory of colors, a novel (Elective Affinities), the evocative poems of the West-Eastern Divan, and his great autobiography, Poetry and Truth. In his eighties he prepared a forty-volume edition of his works; the forty-first volume, published after his death in 1832, was the second part of Faust. Goethe’s wide-ranging mind could never be confined to one form or one philosophy. When asked for the theme of his masterwork, Faust, he could only say, “From heaven through all the world to hell”; his subject was nothing smaller. View titles by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    About

    Goethe's account of his passage through Italy from 1786 to 1788 is a great travel chronicle as well as a candid self-portrait of a genius in the grip of spiritual crisis.

    For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

    Table of Contents

    Italian Journey - Goethe Translated by W. H. Auden and Elizabeth Mayer

    Introduction by W. H. Auden and Elizabeth Mayer
    Part One
    From Carlsbad to the Brenner, September 1786
    From the Brenner to Verona, September 1786
    From Verona to Venice, September 1786
    Venice, October 1786
    From Ferrara to Rome, October 1786
    Rome, First Roman Visit, October 1786-February 1787
    Part Two
    Naples, February-March 1787
    Sicily, March-May 1787
    Naples, May-June 1787
    Part Three
    Rome, Second Roman Visit, June 1787-April 1788
    June 1787
    July 1787
    August 1787
    September 1787
    October 1787
    November 1787
    December 1787
    January 1788
    February 1788
    March 1788
    Index

    Author

    Before he was thirty, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe had proven himself a master of the novel, drama, and lyric poetry. But even more impressive than his versatility was his unwillingness ever to settle into a single style or approach; whenever he used a literary form, he made it something new. Born in 1749 to a well-to-do family in Frankfurt, he was sent to Strasbourg to earn a law degree. There, he met the poet-philosopher Herder, discovered Shakespeare, and began to write poetry. His play Götz von Berlichingen (1773) made him famous throughout Germany. He was invited to the court of the Duke of Saxe-Weimar, where he quickly became a cabinet minister. In 1774 his novel of Romantic melancholy, The Sorrows of a Young Werther, electrified all of Europe. Soon he was at work on the first version of his Faust, which would finally appear as a fragment in 1790. In the 1780s, Goethe visited England and immersed himself in classical poetry. The next decade saw the appearance of Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, his novel of a young artist's education, and a wealth of poetry and criticism. He returned to the Faust material around the turn of the century and completed Part 1 in 1808. The later years of his life were devoted to a bewildering array of pursuits: research in botany and a theory of colors, a novel (Elective Affinities), the evocative poems of the West-Eastern Divan, and his great autobiography, Poetry and Truth. In his eighties he prepared a forty-volume edition of his works; the forty-first volume, published after his death in 1832, was the second part of Faust. Goethe’s wide-ranging mind could never be confined to one form or one philosophy. When asked for the theme of his masterwork, Faust, he could only say, “From heaven through all the world to hell”; his subject was nothing smaller. View titles by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    Other Books by this Author

    Related Articles

    Subscribe

    Penguin Random House Higher Education

    © 2025 Penguin Random House

    Back to Top
    0
    Wish List (0)