BOYLE GOETHE - THE POET AND THE AGE - VOL. 2

In this, the second volume of 'Goethe: The Poet and the Age', Nicholas Boyle covers the most eventful and crowded years of Goethe's life: the period of the French Revolution, which turned his life upside down, and of the German philosophical revolution which ushered in the periods of Idealism and Romanticism. Goethe was a poet of supreme intelligence and sensitivity living through political and intellectual changes which have shaped the modern world. Boyle vividly narrates both the large-scale events and the personal dramas of this exciting time, to give lucid accounts of important thinkers whom English readers have hitherto found inaccessible, and to analyse in new ways Goethe's works of the period, notably Wilhelm Meister, The Natural Daughter, and Faust.