Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, and critic who was considered the greatest German literary figure of the modern era. He is especially known for the drama Faust, considered by some to be Germany’s most significant contribution to world literature.
Read poems by this poet. Born in Frankfurt, Germany, on August 28, 1749, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was tutored extensively in languages as a child. Goethe’s father, a lawyer, prioritized his son’s education, enabling him to engage in many literary and cultural pursuits. Goethe was fascinated by writers such as Homer and Ovid, and committed
Hermann and Dorothea is an epic poem, an idyll, written by German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe between 1796 and 1797, and was to some extent suggested by Johann Heinrich Voss 's Luise, an idyll in hexameters, which was first published in 1782–1784. Goethe's work is set around 1792 at the beginning of the French Revolutionary Wars, when
The most comprehensive one-volume collection of Goethe's writings ever published in English. Read More View Book Add to Cart; Faust I & II, Volume 2: Goethe's Collected Works - Updated Edition Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. One of the great classics of European literature, Faust is Goethe's most complex and profound work. To tell the dramatic and
Part I: Prelude On Stage (Director, Dramatist, Comedian) Director You two, who’ve often stood by me, In times of need, when trouble’s breaking, Say what success our undertaking 35 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (August 28, 1749 — March 22, 1832) was a German polymath — a novelist, dramatist, scientist, poet, and diplomat for more than 10 years for the Republic of Weimar. Then you may forge your chains to bind me, Then I will put my life behind me, Then let them hear my death-knell toll, Then from your labours you'll be free, The clock may stop, the clock-hands fall, And time come to an end for me!”. ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust. tags: time. Read more quotes from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. xYbbTv.
