Keywords

Goethe, "Classiker und Romantiker in Italien, " Nineteenth century Italian literature

Abstract

The second volume of Uber Künst und AltertJmm, published in 1820, contained an article by Goethe, the first part of which he had already written two years earlier, entitled "Classiker und Romantiker in Italien, sich heftig bekämpfend" (classicists and romantics in Italy fighting intensely). This report was meant to be a description of the Italian literary scene.during the second decade of the nineteenth century.

Original Publication Citation

"For a More Accurate Reading of Goethe's 'Classiker und Romantiker in ltalien'," Italian Echoes in the Rocky Mountains, eds. S. Matteo, C. Donatelli-Noble, and M. U. Sowell, (Provo, UT: AAIS, 1990), 127-131.