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| Other authors / contributors: | Gallagher, David.
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| ISBN: | 9780773420571
0773420576
9780773414808
0773414800
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | WEIMAR CLASSICISM: This descriptive term, designating a unique and verybrief epoch of literary and cultural achievement in Germany, is familiar to everystudent of German literature and culture. It was not always so. Only toward theend of the nineteenth century was the term introduced retrospectively in referenceto the few years at the end of the preceding century, which marked the high pointof the career of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who resided in the otherwise smalland provincial Duchy of Weimar and whose achievement as man of lettersestablished what ultimately came to be called 'Classicism.
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| Other form: | Print version: Weimar classicism. Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, ©2010 9780773414808
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