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The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Poem, Magic, Fantasy
From Wikipedia:
"The Sorcerer's Apprentice" (German: Der Zauberlehrling) is a poem by Goethe written in 1797. The poem is a ballad in fourteen stanzas.
http://www.gygatext.ch/english_transl...
From Wikipedia:
"The Sorcerer's Apprentice" (German: Der Zauberlehrling) is a poem by Goethe written in 1797. The poem is a ballad in fourteen stanzas.
http://www.gygatext.ch/english_transl...
2 pages, ebook
First published January 1, 1797
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About the author
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
13.4k books7,019 followersA master of poetry, drama, and the novel, German writer and scientist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe spent 50 years on his two-part dramatic poem
Faust
, published in 1808 and 1832, also conducted scientific research in various fields, notably botany, and held several governmental positions.
George Eliot called him "Germany's greatest man of letters... and the last true polymath to walk the earth." Works span the fields of literature, theology, and humanism.
People laud this magnum opus as one of the peaks of world literature. Other well-known literary works include his numerous poems, the Bildungsroman Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and the epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther .
With this key figure of German literature, the movement of Weimar classicism in the late 18th and early 19th centuries coincided with Enlightenment, sentimentality (Empfindsamkeit), Sturm und Drang, and Romanticism. The author of the scientific text Theory of Colours , he influenced Darwin with his focus on plant morphology. He also long served as the privy councilor ("Geheimrat") of the duchy of Weimar.
Goethe took great interest in the literatures of England, France, Italy, classical Greece, Persia, and Arabia and originated the concept of Weltliteratur ("world literature"). Despite his major, virtually immeasurable influence on German philosophy especially on the generation of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling, he expressly and decidedly refrained from practicing philosophy in the rarefied sense.
Influence spread across Europe, and for the next century, his works inspired much music, drama, poetry and philosophy. Many persons consider Goethe the most important writer in the German language and one of the most important thinkers in western culture as well. Early in his career, however, he wondered about painting, perhaps his true vocation; late in his life, he expressed the expectation that people ultimately would remember his work in optics.
George Eliot called him "Germany's greatest man of letters... and the last true polymath to walk the earth." Works span the fields of literature, theology, and humanism.
People laud this magnum opus as one of the peaks of world literature. Other well-known literary works include his numerous poems, the Bildungsroman Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and the epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther .
With this key figure of German literature, the movement of Weimar classicism in the late 18th and early 19th centuries coincided with Enlightenment, sentimentality (Empfindsamkeit), Sturm und Drang, and Romanticism. The author of the scientific text Theory of Colours , he influenced Darwin with his focus on plant morphology. He also long served as the privy councilor ("Geheimrat") of the duchy of Weimar.
Goethe took great interest in the literatures of England, France, Italy, classical Greece, Persia, and Arabia and originated the concept of Weltliteratur ("world literature"). Despite his major, virtually immeasurable influence on German philosophy especially on the generation of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling, he expressly and decidedly refrained from practicing philosophy in the rarefied sense.
Influence spread across Europe, and for the next century, his works inspired much music, drama, poetry and philosophy. Many persons consider Goethe the most important writer in the German language and one of the most important thinkers in western culture as well. Early in his career, however, he wondered about painting, perhaps his true vocation; late in his life, he expressed the expectation that people ultimately would remember his work in optics.
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January 5, 2023
My rating: 5 stars
Audiobook narrator rating 5 stars
I found a BBC radio drama of this poem by Goethe (adapted by Judith French). I had been interested in seeing the movie with Nicolas Cage and long ago I saw Fantasia. Though, it seems like the Nick Cage movie is quite different.
Either way, this was a fun 43-minute radio drama that made me reminisce of the Fantasia movie. It was well done and I’m going to have my seven-year-old listen to it too (since I think he will enjoy it).
Audiobook narrator rating 5 stars
I found a BBC radio drama of this poem by Goethe (adapted by Judith French). I had been interested in seeing the movie with Nicolas Cage and long ago I saw Fantasia. Though, it seems like the Nick Cage movie is quite different.
Either way, this was a fun 43-minute radio drama that made me reminisce of the Fantasia movie. It was well done and I’m going to have my seven-year-old listen to it too (since I think he will enjoy it).
January 8, 2022
"That old sorcerer has vanished
And for once has gone away!
Spirits called by him, now banished,
My commands shall soon obey.
Every step and saying
That he used, I know,
And with sprites obeying
My arts I will show."
And then everything went wrong. Is it weird that I was imagining Mickey enchanting the brooms the all time I was reading this? Disney pretty captured the essence of Goethe's poem. Now I just have to read it in german so I can get what was (probably) lost in translation.
And for once has gone away!
Spirits called by him, now banished,
My commands shall soon obey.
Every step and saying
That he used, I know,
And with sprites obeying
My arts I will show."
And then everything went wrong. Is it weird that I was imagining Mickey enchanting the brooms the all time I was reading this? Disney pretty captured the essence of Goethe's poem. Now I just have to read it in german so I can get what was (probably) lost in translation.
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January 3, 2022It’s Goethe’s poem that became the basis of the celebrated Dukas piece and Disney film , but the story is older with versions stretching back into Persian and Egyptian culture. The theme of invoking something that you can’t control and needing to be rescued by someone wiser in your art than you is wider of course.
October 4, 2024
A poem about a Sorcerer's apprentice who wants to make his broom fly while his master is out running errands. He does the magic incorrectly and instead floods the master's workshop.
A fun and whimsical poem!
A fun and whimsical poem!
March 30, 2025
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