Balladen

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Rare Book

Genres: Poetry

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1976

About the author

A master of poetry, drama, and the novel, German writer and scientist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe spent 50 years on his two-part dramatic poem Faust , published in 1808 and 1832, also conducted scientific research in various fields, notably botany, and held several governmental positions.

George Eliot called him "Germany's greatest man of letters... and the last true polymath to walk the earth." Works span the fields of literature, theology, and humanism.
People laud this magnum opus as one of the peaks of world literature. Other well-known literary works include his numerous poems, the Bildungsroman Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and the epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther .

With this key figure of German literature, the movement of Weimar classicism in the late 18th and early 19th centuries coincided with Enlightenment, sentimentality (Empfindsamkeit), Sturm und Drang, and Romanticism. The author of the scientific text Theory of Colours , he influenced Darwin with his focus on plant morphology. He also long served as the privy councilor ("Geheimrat") of the duchy of Weimar.

Goethe took great interest in the literatures of England, France, Italy, classical Greece, Persia, and Arabia and originated the concept of Weltliteratur ("world literature"). Despite his major, virtually immeasurable influence on German philosophy especially on the generation of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling, he expressly and decidedly refrained from practicing philosophy in the rarefied sense.

Influence spread across Europe, and for the next century, his works inspired much music, drama, poetry and philosophy. Many persons consider Goethe the most important writer in the German language and one of the most important thinkers in western culture as well. Early in his career, however, he wondered about painting, perhaps his true vocation; late in his life, he expressed the expectation that people ultimately would remember his work in optics.

Reviews

[Vanessa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Le ballate "La sposa di Corinto", "Il pescatore" e "La danza macabra" sono state come un fulmine a ciel sereno, tanto mi hanno colpito, altre invece mi hanno preso meno, ma in generale ho apprezzato tutte le opere proposte.
La lettura a volte è risultata un po' ostica da seguire e, non sapendo il tedesco, mi sono affidata al 100% alla traduzione italiana. Molto buona la prefazione iniziale che contestualizza e analizza tutte le ballate contenute nell'albo.

[Martina Buchalová · Rating 2 out of 5]

It was nice to read but it did not really touch my heart.

[🎀artinka · Rating 2 out of 5]

no… ASI NE, NEŽ ANO, 2.5/10⭐️
- druhá kniha od Goetheho, druhá šance, …
stále stejné pocity…
nedokazu vyjádřit přesně své myšlenky a emoce, ale nerozumím změnění křesťanství, radost a pak jako něco úplně opačného významu? antiutopie?? nedokazu vyjádřit jak moc nechalu tento autorův postoj.
už od Utrpení mladého Werthera jsem si říkala, jak už od autora nečtu nic, ale rozhodla jsem mu dát ještě šanci, přitom je to klasicky autor, jeden z nejvýznamnějších v německé literatuře! ale čím více se ho snažím pochopit, tím více ho nechci vyhledávat.
- i přesto, že jeho moudra, výroky, co nám tu po něm zbyly a zanechal o životě, jsou něco zcela nádherného, ale prostě jeho knihy mi subjektivně nesedí.
- zaroven je dost možné, že v budoucnosti autor dostane ode mě třetí šanci, a definitivně poslední, pokud mi nezaujme,…🐏

[Tadeas Urban · Rating 5 out of 5]

Krásná malá sbírka německé lidové poezie, které Goethe dodal ještě více kouzla svým zlatým spisovatelským dotekem. K tomu všemu se jedná o překlad Otokara Fischera, který se mi dalších možností čte úplně nejlépe. Verše působí zvučně, jemně a nevinně.

Jednoznačně 10/10. Jednoho dne toto budu číst svým dětem před spaním.
Nejoblíbenější básně:
Růžička; Král v Thůle; Rybář; Přadlena; Mlynářčina lítost; Korintská nevěsta.

[Nessy Bologna · Rating 3 out of 5]

Traduzioni non all'altezza, che addirittura tradiscono gli ambiti semantici sono improntate le ballate nell'originale tedesco. Apparato critico minimale. A parte questo, è uno dei tre (!!!!!!!) titoli di poesia di Goethe disponibili in italiano, quindi mettiamo in saccoccia e non lamentiamoci troppo