First extensive comparative study of William Blake and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the most ambitious poet-thinkers of the Romantic era. Each apparently unaware of the other's poetic work, Blake and Goethe made strikingly similar personal and literary mental journeys in quest of their goals.
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First extensive comparative study of William Blake and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the most ambitious poet-thinkers of the Romantic era. Each apparently unaware of the other's poetic work, Blake and Goethe made strikingly similar personal and literary mental journeys in quest of their goals.