Monday, November 6, 2017

Poems and Ballads of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

https://www.stmarys-ca.edu/sites/default/files/attachments/files/Poems.pdf


Juliana found an old book at the Baltimore Book Thing a few years ago. Poems and Ballads of Goethe is the book. Its date 1856 on the cover page and there's no copyright information.The book is falling apart. There's mold on the page edges and once you open it, that page is no longer connected to the spine.

Thank goodness for the internet and someone else scanning in the book. The link above is the link to the book. Translated through Google. April is national Poetry month and we usually stick to the same poet, but this school year we're going to start this book.

Bookmark the pdf link above and you can join us exploring it and the wealth of heart poured into those pages.

The pages are translated from German. Here's a link to a Goethe bio https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/f/faust-parts-1-and-2/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe-biography


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer and statesman. His works include epic and lyric poetry; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour; and four novels.


Practice German
https://www.goethe.de/en/spr/ueb.html

German for Children
https://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/en/spr/unt/kum/dfk.html

Theory of Colours (German: Zur Farbenlehre) is a book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe about the poet's views on the nature of colours and how these are perceived by humans. Published in 1810, it contains detailed descriptions of phenomena such as coloured shadows, refraction, and chromatic aberration.




https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/08/17/goethe-theory-of-colours/

Though hardly a work of science, Theory of Colors stands as an absorbing account of the philosophy and artistic experience of color, bridging the intuitive and the visceral in a way that, more than two hundred years later, continues to intrigue.



Color Theory book link

https://archive.org/details/goethestheoryco01goetgoog




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