The Flight to Italy: Diary and Selected Letters (Oxford World's Classics)
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This is the authentic day-to-day record of the first eight weeks of freedom as Germany's greatest poet heads for the Italy he has been yearning to see since childhood and finds himself in a new world of warmth and light. Leaving behind the difficulties of a decade in Weimar, the burden of
administration, a difficult love-affair, and the frustration of not having time to work on his literary projects, he discovers himself again as a sensuous being and an artist. Goethe's fresh and spontaneous notes, sometimes dashed down at crowded tables in primitive Italian inns, bring together art
and nature, Antiquity and the Renaissance, aesthetics and science, observations of climate, rocks, plants and the Italian people, in an unpremeditated mixture through which the poet's mature vision of the natural and human world can be seen taking shape. Never before translated into English, this
diary brings us close to a great European writer at a turning-point of his life.
The Flight to Italy: Diary and Selected Letters (Oxford World's Classics),Johan Wolfgang Goethe,T. J. Reed,Oxford University Press, USA,0192838865,1749-1832,Biography / Autobiography,Classics,Description and travel,Diaries,Diaries And Journals,Early works to 1800,European - German,German Prose,Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von,,Italy,Letters,Literary,Literary Collections,Literature: Classics,Travel,Biography: general,German,Literary Collections / Continental European,Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries,Literature/English | World Literature | Germany,Poetry & poets: 16th to 18th centuries,Poetry & poets: 19th century
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