Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Gott und Welt [God and World]

Ellis Dye (Macalester College)

Ed. by Gerhard P. Knapp, University of Utah
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.4.1: German-language Writing and Culture: Germany, 500-present.
Vol. editors: Gerhard P. Knapp (University of Utah), Jennifer Marston William (Purdue University), Herbert Rowland (Purdue University), Jill E. Twark (East Carolina University)

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First circulation or publication 1821 - 1829

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On 27 March 1815, shortly before the “Final Act” of the Congress of Vienna and not quite two months before Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo, Goethe sent his publisher a bundle of poems intended for the first volume of a new twelve-volume edition of his collected works. One small section bore the rubric “Gott und Welt” [“God and the World”] and contained only a few aphorisms, which Goethe evidently planned to augment in subsequent years. Then, in volume three of the

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(1827-1842), he added to this section, among other poems, “Prooemion”, “Wiederfinden” [“Reunion”], “Dauer im Wechsel” [“Permanence in Change”], “Eins und alles” [“One and All”], “Die Metamorphose der Pflanzen” [“The Metamorphosis of Plants”], and “Urworte.…

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Citation: Dye, Ellis. "Gott und Welt". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 26 July 2010 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=30668, accessed 23 November 2024.]

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