This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... xiii pandora Reason for writing Pandora--Origin--History of composition--Goethe's conception of beauty--Pandora--Prometheus--Epimetheus--Pandora's box--Epimeleia--Phileros--Phileros's crime and its punishment--Epimeleia's history--Pandora's character--Prometheus and Epimetheus--The fire--Its ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... xiii pandora Reason for writing Pandora--Origin--History of composition--Goethe's conception of beauty--Pandora--Prometheus--Epimetheus--Pandora's box--Epimeleia--Phileros--Phileros's crime and its punishment--Epimeleia's history--Pandora's character--Prometheus and Epimetheus--The fire--Its beneficent effect--The newday--Plan of the projected continuation--Pandora's return due to young generation--Contents of her box--Work, science, and art--The Kypsele--War over it--Pandora brings peaoe--Epimetheus's youth renewed--The whole poem a chain of songs. we now turn back to the period in which Die Wahlverwandtschaften originated. The Duchy of Weimar, central and northern Germany were still bleeding from the wounds of the war. The whole fatherland, being under French suzerainty, did obeisance to the will of the French Emperor, uncertain whether or not he would again exercise his might in shaping the fate of individuals and countries. A rude, hard age had dawned. Peace, quiet, harmony, and beauty had gone out of life. Would they ever return? Men asked this question complainingly, and those who complained and asked most, and turned their eyes most longingly to heaven, were the numerous educated class, those who had little to occupy them, and who had hitherto thought their comfortable artistic and scientific enjoyment safe-guarded, but were now cruelly aroused from their esthetic dream-life. Pandora, the fair goddess, who comprised within herself everything beautiful, had taken leave of them. To console them Goethe sang the song of Pandorens Wiederkunft, (Pandora's return), as the original title read. While singing this song he pursued at the same time broader and more general aims. The people could not have lost beauty out of their lives if they...
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