Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Katharina Mommsen

John Whaley

John Crosetto

Renée Schell

Goethe researcher Katharine Mommsen draws the reader into the fascinating life of Germany's greatest literary genius, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832). We discover how ordinary items such as the food we eat or the beverages we drink, and everyday activities like hiking, ice-skating, horseback riding, dancing the waltz, and music-making acquire fresh meaning within Goethe's own pantheistic life philosophy. He directed his wisdom toward keeping body and soul healthy, lively, focused, and strong as a basis for a fuller life - for him it became an essential part of the poet's worldly gospel. This book which is composed around hundreds of excerpts from Goethe's works, correspondences and conversations transcends biography, and shows us the poet's art of living in its richness in wit and wisdom, goodness, and love for humanity.

Goethe's Art of Living

With an Introduction by Katharina Mommsen

Poems of the West and East: West-Eastern Divan - West-Oestlicher Divan: Bi-Lingual Edition of the Complete Poems

A collection of the poetry of Johann Wolfgang Goethe, the pre-eminent figure of German literature, as well as Germany's greatest lyric poet.

John Whaley

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