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Correspondence between Goetheand Carlyle

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-18321887
Books, Manuscripts
Main title:
Correspondence between Goetheand Carlyle / ed. by Charles Eliot Norton.
Imprint:
London and New York : Macmillan and co, 1887.
Collation:
xix, 362 p ; 20 cm.
Notes:
"In the following correspondence the letters of Goethe have been printed from the originals now in the possessionof Mrs. Alexander Carlyle ... The letters of Carlyle are printed from a careful copy of the originals now preserved in the Goethe archives atWeimar."--Pref.Each letter of Goethe's is followed by an English translation."Appendix I. Dedication and introduction by Goethe to the translation of Carlyle's Life of Schiller" (translation of "Zuschrift an die hochansehnliche Gesellschaft für ausländische schöne literatur zu Berlin" in T. Carlyle. Leben Schillers ...Eingeleitetdurch Goethe. Frankfurt a. M., 1830) p. (299)-323.Appendix II ("note by Goethe, which he had intended to accompany the Kästchen, announced in his letter to Carlyle of the 6th of June 1830 (and which) had evidently neverreached its destination; the original being now in private hands in Weimar. It was printed in the Grenzboten; Goethiana: Zu Goethes verhältnis zu Carlyle, von E. Fügel, III, 1885". It includes an explanatory note by Goethe on the Chaos,a Weimar weekly paper, for private circulation, edited by Ottilie von Goethe) p. (324)-342.
LC class:
PT2027.L53
Language:
EnglishGerman
Index terms:
Thomas Carlyle1030
BRN:
3353678
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