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Der Wanderer: Goethe in Italien.(Book Review)
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The Modern Language Review
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July 1, 2004| Author:
Bishop, Paul
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Der Wanderer: Goethe in Italien. By NORBERT MILLER. Munich: Hanser. 2002. 731 pp. 50 [euro]. ISBN 3-446-19876-8 (hbk).
In April 1787 Goethe visited the ruins of the massive unfinished temple of Segesta, an ancient Sicilian town founded, according to legend, by the Trojan followers of Aeneas. In Palermo, Goethe had discovered that the Homeric dream could still be dreamt in the world of nature; would the architectural remains also yield the memory of past splendour? Like t...
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