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Goethe and the Ginkgo: A Tree and a Poem
Goethe and the Ginkgo A Tree and a Poem
Author: Siegfried Unseld
In 1815, Goethe gave symbolic expression to his intense relationship with Marianne Willemer, a recently married woman thirty-five years his junior. He gave her a leaf from the ginkgo tree, explaining that, like its deeply cleft yet still whole leaf, he was "single yet twofold." Although it is not known if their relationship was ever consummated,...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226841946
ISBN-10: 0226841944
Publication Date: 5/1/2003
Pages: 72
Edition: 1
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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