Goethean

American  

[gur-tee-uhn] / ˈgɜr ti ən /

adjective

1. relating to or characteristic of the writing, ideas, or style of Goethe.

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Example Sentences

The ideal was a Goethean panorama in which sublimity and scientific curiosity were inextricably mingled.

From Time Magazine Archive

This War, his most recent pamphlet, is a masterful piece of classical rhetoric, tinged, like much of his work, with Goethean pompousness.

From Time Magazine Archive

Later I shall speak of the new poets who grew up during the Goethean imperialism.

From The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine by Heine, Heinrich

Having once adopted the Goethean way of thinking-in-polarities, we may feel sure that there is somewhere in nature a phenomenon which represents the polar opposite of the levity-gravity relationship peculiar to the gaseous state.

From Man or Matter by Lehrs, Ernst

I know you're surrounded with the din of battle, and yet the beauty you produce has the Goethean calm, even like the beauty distilled at Weimar when the smoke was over Jena.

From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by James, Henry