Nicholas Jacobs

Rüdiger Safranski, Goethe – Life as a Work of Art. Liveright, 2017.   Goethe is too little known in the US and UK despite the existence for over two hundred years of excellent translations, some of the earliest by women (Sarah Austin and Anna Swanwick). Even the best book on Goethe and England (by Jean-Marie Carré,…