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

The Goethean attitude to the Universe is too self-poised and self-centered to be adequately rendered by any word that suggests complete abandonment.

From Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions by Powys, John Cowper

There is no valuable doctrine in his book, except the Goethean, Do to-day the nearest duty.

From Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I by Fuller, Margaret

At the same time, I by no means deny the intrinsic worth of the Goethean masterpieces.

From The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine by Heine, Heinrich