Goethe and His Woman Friends (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Goethe and His Woman Friends Hardly any great man in all literary history has been abused with such malignity as Goethe. There is scarcely a crime in the category of which he has not been accused - and proved guilty, too, - by ingenious citations from his life or his works! Remorseless is among the gentlest adjectives hurled at his head by virtuous critics who are wont, then, to refer to the various women with whom his career is bound up as so many sucked oranges from which he had taken all the sweetness that was in them as he passed triumphantly upon his ruthless way. When, however, one searches for the fact-foundation of these Philippics one finds it to lie - in the poet's own words! His works, he declared, constituted one great confession in which nothing was concealed and very little extenuated. But Goethe was a poet and so could scarcely have been expected to Boswellize his life, even the one volume we regard as autobiography confesses itself Dichtung as well as Wahrheit. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.