Goethe: The Poet and the Age: Volume I: The Poetry of Desire (1749-1790) (Goethe - The Poet & the Age) by Nicholas Boyle

Goethe: The Poet and the Age #1

by Nicholas Boyle

"The best biography of Goethe in English but will offer even German readers a major insight " - The New Yorker.

Genres: Biography, History, Germany, Nonfiction, Biography Memoir

Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1991

About the author

Nicholas Boyle is Schröder Professor of German Emeritus at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow and former President of Magdalene College.

Reviews

[Stewart Clarke · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good book, very detailed. I learned more about Goethe than I ever thought possible. There was not enough written about the time, but rather it focused on his life and immediate circles.

[Rosa Rose · Rating 5 out of 5]

Probably the best Goethe-biography ever written.

[John]

philosophy,biography,nonfiction,enlightenment

[Jack Coleman · Rating 3 out of 5]

Academic Biography which is hard to read but interesting insites into the age