Goethe the Poet and the Age Revolution and Renunciation (1790-1803)

"Because Boyle make disarmingly little fuss about his own originality, general readers may not realize just how much of this volume takes them to the leading edge of current Goethe scholarship. But they will be in no doubt that they are in the hands of a writer who narrates with equal immediacy broad historical movements and the mud, blood and excrement of military campaigns; of a subtle and plausible interpreter of WILLIAM MEISTLER'S APPRENTICESHIP, HERMANN AND DOROTHEA, THE NATURAL DAUGHTER and those portions of FAUST written in these years; and of someone who can clarify the most abstruse philosophies and bring to life the complex textures of personal relationships in the tiny and yet strangely universal world of Goethe's Weimar.Boyle, Nicholas is the author of 'Goethe the Poet and the Age Revolution and Renunciation (1790-1803)' with ISBN 9780198158691 and ISBN 0198158696.