Goethe's Poetry for Occasions
This study fills a gap in Goethe criticism caused as much by Goethe’s sweeping claim that all his poems are ‘Gelegenheitsgedichte’ as by the traditional tendency to dismiss the ‘occasional’ segment of the poet’s work, especially works written for the Weimar court, as imposed exercise. The author examines a representative number of Goethe’s poems, masques, theatrical prologues, and so on, from the ...
This study fills a gap in Goethe criticism caused as much by Goethe’s sweeping claim that all his poems are ‘Gelegenheitsgedichte’ as by the traditional tendency to dismiss the ‘occasional’ segment of the poet’s work, especially works written for the Weimar court, as imposed exercise. The author examines a representative number of Goethe’s poems, masques, theatrical prologues, and so on, from the ...
