Word: nacreous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...longtime Goethe fan, Poet W. H. Auden is neither awed nor incapable. In attempts to make the formidable German more accessible, Auden and his collaborator, Elizabeth Mayer, have bypassed the nacreous brilliance of Goethe's complex imagery and the Gluhwein dark of such things as Faust, Part II. Instead they settled on Goethe's prose journal of his 20-month trip to Italy in 1786. Ostensibly, the book is a readable travelogue in the "dawn found us at the Apennines" tradition. But it is also an account of the most decisive period of Goethe's life, when...