The Fairy Tale "The Green Snake & Beautiful Lily" from "Conversations of German Emigrants" (1795)

"The Fairy Tale came to birth as a result of the friendship between Goethe and Schiller, and friendship is a dominant theme in the Tale. Schiller was the first and primary audience for the work. As is well known, it was the friendship between these two individuals, Goethe and Schiller, that inaugurated the period in European literature known as Weimar Classicism."From the Afterword "Goethe in Paradise" by Bruce Donehower, Ph.D.This edition of The Fairy Tale by Goethe, also known as The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily, makes available in a new and lively translation an important text of early romanticism, a text that Rudolf Steiner referred to as the "archetypal seed" of the anthroposophical movement.Novalis called this tale a "narrated opera." Read more