Goethe's Poetry and the Philosophy of Nature

This book describes the development of Goethe's collection of poetry Gott und Welt from 1798 to 1827 and sees it as a long poem on nature. It provides important points about Goethe's engagement with Immanuel Kant's philosophy at the end of the eighteenth century.

Autorentext

Regina Sachers

Klappentext

This book describes the development of Goethe's collection of poetry Gott und Welt from 1798 to 1827 and sees it as a long poem on nature. It provides important points about Goethe's engagement with Immanuel Kant's philosophy at the end of the eighteenth century.

Zusammenfassung
This book describes the development of Goethe's collection of poetry Gott und Welt from 1798 to 1827 and sees it as a long poem on nature. It provides important points about Goethe's engagement with Immanuel Kant's philosophy at the end of the eighteenth century.

Inhalt

Introduction 1. 1798-1806: The first Poems on Nature in the Heyday of German Idealism Idealism 2. 1814-1815: The Poetic Rebirth in the Divan Years 3. 1817-21: Writing the Life of a Poet and Scientist 4. 1827: Defining a Morphology of Poetry 5. 1836 and 1890: What Happened to Gott und Welt 6. Conclusion