Goethe

[ gur-tuh, German gœ-tuh ]

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Jo·hann Wolf·gang von [yoh, -hahn , vawlf, -gahng f, uh, n], 1749–1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher.

Goethe

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GoetheJohann Wolfgang von17491832MGermanWRITING: poetWRITING: novelistTHEATRE: dramatist Johann Wolfgang von (joˈhan ˈvɔlfɡaŋ fɔn). 1749–1832, German poet, novelist, and dramatist, who settled in Weimar in 1775. His early works of the Sturm und Drang period include the play Götz von Berlichingen (1773) and the novel The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774). After a journey to Italy (1786–88) his writings, such as the epic play Iphigenie auf Tauris (1787) and the epic idyll Hermann und Dorothea (1797), showed the influence of classicism. Other works include the Wilhelm Meister novels (1796–1829) and his greatest masterpiece Faust (1808; 1832)

But does this translate into a reason to ignore the giants of the German canon: Goethe, Mann, Brecht?

Architecture is frozen music, Goethe wrote, and to my mind cities are, too.

Goethe recalled later that he had been first asked his age and been complimented that, at 60, he was “well preserved.”

It seemed strange to me to be passing the room of my beloved Goethe, with our equally beloved Liszt!

Goethe's poem is more interesting because of the greater solidity of the characters, and because of the more closely knitted plot.

And Mazzini found in his verse a great social lesson, such as Goethe 327 never tried to teach.

"A great man can be recognized (p. 173) only by his peers," is one of Goethe's own sentences.

Meanwhile he, Lancaster, had his Euripides and Goethe and whatever else he liked, or knew where to borrow it.

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