The Guild Review

Earlier in Dichtung und Wahrheit Goethe warns of the danger of withdrawing from political life. Goethe’s own life and his own characters sh...

As a brief addendum to my most recent post , this passage from Book II of Goethe's autobiography, Dichtung und Wahrheit , shows that Goe...

In histories of German literature, there is an idea one hears quite a bit, which attempts to explain the sudden flourishing of German litera...

The last time that I mentioned Goethe's Italian Journey , I commended Goethe for seeking to understand art as art, not by using lots of ...

There is a certain type of empirical judgment [concerning art], which has spread due to the influence of English and French travelers. One e...

At the very beginning of his autobiography, Dichtung und Wahrheit (Poetry and Truth) , Goethe describes the house he grew up in, with specia...

What shook me and put me to shame was the disparity between my personal rank and the resounding extravagance of world history marking the cr...