Goethe's Poetry for Occasions / / Ernest Oppenheimer.

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 exa...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]
©1974
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • 1. Introduction Gelegenheitsdichtung
  • 2. Frankfurt and Leipzig 1756-67
  • 3. From Strassburg to Frankfurt 1770-5
  • 4. Weimar 1775-80
  • 5. 'Schule geselliger Empfindung' 1780-3
  • 6. The Limits of Sociability
  • 7. The Poet and His Public
  • 8. Weimar Skirmishes and Imperial Battles
  • 9. A Midwinter Night's Dream
  • 10. Once More into the Breach...
  • Appendix A
  • Appendix B
  • Notes
  • Index