The auto-biography of Goethe : truth and poetry: from my life (v.3)
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Type of record: Book
Title: The auto-biography of Goethe : truth and poetry: from my life (v.3)
Other titles: Aus meinem Leben; Truth and poetry: from my life
Classmark: German H-90.34 GOE
Creator(s): Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)
Additional creator(s): Godwin, Parke (1816-1904) (Other); Hopkins, John H (1820-1891) (Other); Dana, Charles A (1819-1897) (Other); Dwight, John Sullivan (1813-1893) (Other)
Publisher: Wiley and Putnam
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1847
Language: English
Size and medium: 3 volumes
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/196787
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991009511669705181
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Each part has separate title-page and pagination.
The first part is translated by the editor; the second, by John Henry Hopkins, jr.; third, by Charles A. Dana, and fourth, by John S. Dwight. cf. Advertisement, pt. II, and editor's note, pt. IV, at end.
The translations of "Annals; or, Day and year book", "Italian journey", etc., and Goethe's dramas, projected, according to "Preface by the editor," to form part of the series, were never published. The series was brought to an end in 1848, at the dissolution of the publishers' partnership.
Preface by the author contains this statement: "Several years since there was what purported to be a translation published in London; but this was a disgraceful imposture. Mrs. Austin speaks of it as the most flagrant piece of literary dishonesty on record, not without justice; and Mr. Carlyle referes to it much in the same spirit. It was a poor copy of a wretched French version, in which frequently twenty pages of the original are omitted at a time, and hardly a sentence is rendered with fidelity." This referes to an anonymous translation published in 2 vols., London, 1824, and reprinted in 1 vol., New York, 1824 and 1844. cf. Characteristics of Goethe. From the German of Falk, von Müller, etc., with notes... by S. Austin, vol. II (1833) p. 129, and Carlyle's Crit. and miscell. essays, New York, 1872, vol. I, p. 178.
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