Goethes Correspondence With A Child

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ISBN 13 : 9781331408192
Total Pages : 510 pages
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Download or read book Goethe's Correspondence written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Goethe's Correspondence: With a Child Bettina von Arnim died at Berlin on the 20th of January, 1859, in the seventy-third year of her age. She was born at Frankfort-on-the-Main in 1785, and was the sister of Clemens Brentano, a brilliant dramatist and novelist, whose plays still keep possession of the German stage. Educated in peculiar freedom from the restraints which ordinarily invest female life, she was early distinguished for her eccentricities of sentiment and conduct, as well as for her sparkling displays of intellect. Goethe became her idol, and the nature of the worship was disclosed in a book which she published in 1835, under the title of Goethe's Briefwechsel mit einem Kinde, - "Goethe's Correspondence with a Child," - which is a most extraordinary exhibition of sentiment, not unmingled with poetic and profound thought. Goethe was about sixty years old, and condescended to the lavish affection of the young girl, encouraging her idolatry rather, and patronizing her sallies of wit and fancy. Two thirds of the book were her own. This work she herself translated into English. Five years later, she published another book, called Die Gunderode, consisting of correspondence between herself and a certain Fraulein Gunderode, a canoness, who so far retained the passions of the world as to commit suicide on account of an unhappy attachment to Creuzer, the philological writer. It was partly translated by our countrywoman, Margaret Fuller. Bettina was early married to Ludwig Achim von Arnim, a distinguished writer also, and one of the leaders of that school of German literature which took the name of the Romantic. This was a school which began silently to protest against the sceptical, or rather merely intellectual, tendencies of the modern German mind; and it sought, by steeping literature in the hearty, noble, and many-colored legends of the Middle Ages, to give to it more of freshness, depth, freedom, and color. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."