Wilhelm Meister's Wanderjahre [Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years] (German)
Title
Wilhelm Meister's Wanderjahre [Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years] (German)
Text Read
Wilhelm Meister's Wanderjahre [Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years] (German)
Author
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Original Source
Paris: Baudry's Europäische Buchhandlung, 1840. Wilhelm Meister's Lehr- und Wanderjahre von Goethe, pp. 182-313
Digitized by
Internet Archive
Publication Date
1800
Date(s) of Reading
- 1854-12-[19]
- 1854-12-27
- 1870-12-02
Evidence
1854-12-[19]: "Tuesday. Scherr. Began Part II of Ethics. Walked into the town and in the Thiergarten. Came in and wrote. In the evening we expected Magnus but he didn't come. I began to read aloud the Wanderjahre. G. read 'As you like it'. Tasso." Diary 1854-1861 39
1854-12-27: "Wednesday. Scherr. Translated passages from the Kestner Briefe. Very wet again, so we did not walk long. Read a little in Wanderjahre and then read Heine's "Allemagne" in the German edition. G finished Taming of the Shrew. Letter from Princess Wittgenstein." Diary 1854-1861 40
1870-12-02: "I am experimenting in a story, which I began without any very serious intention of carrying it out lengthily. It is a subject which has been recorded among my possible themes ever since I began to write fiction, but will probably take new shapes in the development. I am today at p. 44. I am reading Wolf's Prolegomena to Homer. In the evening aloud, Wilhelm Meister again!." Diary 1861-1877 141
1854-12-27: "Wednesday. Scherr. Translated passages from the Kestner Briefe. Very wet again, so we did not walk long. Read a little in Wanderjahre and then read Heine's "Allemagne" in the German edition. G finished Taming of the Shrew. Letter from Princess Wittgenstein." Diary 1854-1861 40
1870-12-02: "I am experimenting in a story, which I began without any very serious intention of carrying it out lengthily. It is a subject which has been recorded among my possible themes ever since I began to write fiction, but will probably take new shapes in the development. I am today at p. 44. I am reading Wolf's Prolegomena to Homer. In the evening aloud, Wilhelm Meister again!." Diary 1861-1877 141
Citation
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, Wilhelm Meister's Wanderjahre [Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years] (German), George Eliot's Reading, George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/57707