6.0625 Rs: Goethe Bio (4/46)

Elaine Brennan (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Mon, 29 Mar 1993 14:37:57 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 6, No. 0625. Monday, 29 Mar 1993.


(1) Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1993 08:35 EST (6 lines)
From: JELLEMA@HOPE.BITNET
Subject: Re: 6.0621 Qs: Goethe Bio

(2) Date: Fri, 26 Mar 93 16:01:13 -0500 (8 lines)
From: dthel@conncoll.bitnet
Subject: Goethe bio

(3) Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1993 14:00:23 -0500 (EST) (21 lines)
From: allegre@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Allegre Christian)
Subject: Goethe Biography

(4) Date: Thu, 25 Mar 93 19:04:48 EST (11 lines)
From: "Andrew J. Bourgeois" <HABOURG@BROWNVM>
Subject: Re: Looking for Good Outstanding Biography of Goethe

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Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1993 08:35 EST
From: JELLEMA@HOPE.BITNET
Subject: Re: 6.0621 Qs: Goethe Bio;

The Goethe biography was by Nicholas Boyle: "Goethe: The Poet
and the Age," Oxford. Published in 1991.
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Date: Fri, 26 Mar 93 16:01:13 -0500
From: dthel@conncoll.bitnet
Subject: Goethe bio

The Goethe biography sought by Paul Brians, as no doubt others have pointed
out, is Nicholas Boyle's _Goethe The Poet and The Age_, published in 1991 by
Oxford. It is now available in paperback. It is the first volume of either
two or three projected. Dirk t. D. Held, Connecticut College
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Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1993 14:00:23 -0500 (EST)
From: allegre@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Allegre Christian)
Subject: Goethe Biography


The best "good outstanding Biography of Goethe" is of course:

Nicholas Boyle, Goethe, The Poet and the Age
Volume I: The poetry of Desire
(1749-1790)
Clarendon Press . Oxford, 1991
xx-807 pages

It is now in paperback. Volume II might be out, I don't know.
A thoughtful review of volume I was published by Richard Holmes in the
NYRB (volume XXXVIII, Nr 17, October 24, 1991, p.3-5)

Ch. Allegre



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Date: Thu, 25 Mar 93 19:04:48 EST
From: "Andrew J. Bourgeois" <HABOURG@BROWNVM>
Subject: Re: Looking for Good Outstanding Biography of Goethe

Paul Brians wrote:
>... The New Yorker published a glowing review of a new biography of
> Goethe.... I can't remember the title or author....

Perhaps this was Nicholas Boyle's _Goethe: the Poet and the Age_, Vol. I:
The Poetry of Desire (1749-1790). (New York: Clarendon Press/Oxford University
Press, 1991) .