CONVERSATIONS WITH GOETHE

The German poet, novelist, translator, scientist, dramatist, and instrumentalist, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 -- 1832)turned out to be the last worldwide mastermind of the West and a ruler of world literature, the writer of Wilhelm Meister, Faust and The Sorrows of Young Werther,. There is not anywhere else that one can meet a more all-pervading, multifaceted, and Private Goethe than in the astonishing Conversations (1836) which was done by Johann Peter Eckermann (1792 -- 1854), a German scholar and writer in addition to Goethe's acquaintance, archivist, and editor. Even though simply thirty-one at the time of the meeting of the seventy-four-year-old literary expert, Eckermann rapidly dedicated himself to helping Goethe throughout his preceding nine years though never fading to document their far-ranging dialogue. The book gives us Goethe's thoughts on Byron, Delacroix, Hegel, Shakespeare, Carlyle, and Voltaire, in addition to his opinions on astronomy, art, and...
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