Goethe and the English-Speaking World. Essays from the Cambridge Symposium for His 250th Anniversary

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Boyle, Nicholas and John Guthrie, eds. Goethe and the English-Speaking World. Essays from the Cambridge Symposium for His 250 Anniversary. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2002. 285 pp. $36.80 hardcover.

This volume presents nearly all of the papers given at the Cambridge Symposium. It opens with Nicholas Boyle's introductory meditation on "Goethe and England; England and Goethe" and then organizes eight and seven papers, espectively, into the two (approximate) halves of the book: "The English-Speaking World and Goethe: Meetings and Influences" and "Goethe and the English-Speaking World: ...

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