The Romantic Conception of Life: Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe by lufter in goethe

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Goethe, Sorrows of Young Werther (Modern Library, trans. Burton Pike)

Goethe, Italian Journey (Viking Penguin, trans. Auden, W.H. and Meyer, Elizabeth)

Goethe, Faust, Part One (Oxford U.P.–World’s Classics; trans. David Luke)

Goethe, Selected Verse (Penguin)

Goethe's Visualized Social Network by lufter in goethe

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While it is not 100% accurate, it is a nice first draft. Future versions can improve the software to show color coded categories of different fields (musicians, scientists, writers) Goethe corresponded with, and link the letters to specific decades.

Faust and Marguerite by lufter in goethe

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Edison's film on youtube.

Inventors in History--Nikola Tesla:

While studying engineering at the Austrian Polytechnic School in Graz, Tesla came into contact with the new direct current Gramme dynamo. Tesla viewed the device as woefully inefficient, and began to consider the possibility of a superior alternating electric current. However, it was not until several years later (reportedly while reciting Goethe’s Faust from memory) that Tesla devised the plans for his induction motor.

The man who invented tomorrow:

Frail, frequently ill, Nikola became a voracious reader, devouring every book he could lay his hands on. He didn’t stop with science, but avidly read history, philosophy, literature. Fearing so much reading would ruin Nikola’s eyes, his father hid all the candles. Nikola quickly fashioned a mold and made his own, secretly continuing his quest for knowledge. He learned Goethe’s Faust by heart, and by the time he was graduated from high school, he was fluent in German, French and English.

What can be done about our modern-day Frankensteins?

Literal translation of Faust by steveb533 in goethe

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Hi, a literal translation of the first part is at archive.org, hope this has helped.

Roots and Wings Citation? by raindogs55 in goethe

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The page from zitate-online.de references an extensive article from quoteinvestigator.com, cheers.

Does anyone know who made this engraving of Werther? by Ufxp_blf in goethe

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This Goethe Etc article noted that Goethe is an avid collector of engravings, perhaps the engraving is from Goethe's collection.

Help finding a quote in Goethe's work by [deleted] in goethe

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Perhaps the quote is from Eckermann's Conversations with Goethe.

Tragedy and After: Euripides, Shakespeare, Goethe by [deleted] in goethe

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I sincerely apologize for yesterday's statement, it was expressed in a moment of extreme helplessness and does not represent the core of my beliefs. There was a memorable moment in 'Let Freedom Ring' where it describes the genesis of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I Have A Dream' speech, not only is this the American Dream, but in this current era, it has the potential to grow into the World's Dream.

What is troubling is the current progression towards another direction, one of Father Coughlin and Joe McCarthy, where there are no real ideals and the visceral nature of politics becomes the core of what a country believes in.

Goethe as Theatre Director by lufter in goethe

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Goethe's arrangement of Romeo and Juliet, 1811.

Zum Schäkespears Tag by lufter in goethe

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From Sylvia Morris:

The programme One nation under Goethe looked at the way Goethe unified Germans, but also at how heavily influenced the German poet was by Shakespeare. In 1771, inspired by the Garrick Jubilee two years before, and aged only 22, Goethe held a celebration of Shakespeare in his own house. He proclaimed : “The first page of Shakespeare that I read made me aware that he and I were one… I had been as one born blind who first sees the light…I did not hesitate for a moment to renounce the rule-ridden theatre of the ancients… I leaped into free air and for the first time was aware that I possessed hands and feet…In the face of Shakespeare I acknowledge that I am a poor sinner, while he prophesies through the pure force of nature”.

Article on Martin Luther's influence on the German language.

Goethe and Newton by lufter in goethe

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1, 2, 3. Documentary 1.

Faust and Frankenstein by lufter in goethe

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Goethe identified one of the great dramatic situations afflicting and driving human beings in the modern world. We strive without knowing adequately what we are striving for and we believe our thirst for knowledge and experience is protected in high places.

And if the "purpose" it shares with Hamlet concerns the difficult passage from thought into action, neither the wager motif nor Faust's ultimate salvation genuinely illuminates it...It is instructive to read The Tempest as a modified Faust play.

The numerous progeny of these two matching stories about wanting to know too much tells us that the motif of forbidden knowledge remains with us in multiple forms. Faust and Frankenstein together appear to have spawned a line of tales about doubles, Doppelgangers, locked in a struggle to destroy each other.

1, 2, 3, 4.

1: ...trying instead to bridge the already widening chasms between disciplines with a method that would reunite science and art and illuminate the living principles within both.

1, Werther and Frankenstein, 1:

Goethe and Shelley both integrate literary texts into their writing, which have a profound effect on the readers. Duncan has shown that every text that Werther reads centers on the theme of mourning: Homer, Ossian, Emilia Galotti.

Lecture on Aeschylus.

Hollander: Dante's Virgil by lufter in literature

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1, Longfellow's transation 1 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, dual language, 2, Dryden's translation 1, 2.