Poetry and truth from my own life
By: by J. W. von Goethe; a revised translation by Minna Steele Smith, wih an introduction and bibliography, by Karl Breul
Contributors: Smith, Minna Steele
Series: [Goethe's Works, vol. I-II]; Bohn's standard library
Publisher: G. Bell & sons
Published: 1911
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Notes: Listed in Bohn's catalogues as vol. I-II of Goethe's works, tr. by various hands

The present translation is based on the well-known version by John Oxenford and the Rev. A. J. W. Morrison, which was originally published in 1849. The editions of Dichtung und wahrheit which have been mainly used in making the nrevision are Heinemann's edition of Goethe's Werke, v. 13 and 14, and Cotta's Jubiläums ausgabe, with notes by Richard M. Meyer. For details as to Oxenford's translation, cf. note under entry of the Autobiography, 1848

The earlier editions (Oxenford's version) are published under the title: The autobiography of Goethe. Truth and poetry from my own life

Bibliography: vol. I, p. xxv-xxxiii