Wilhelm Meister
Americannoun
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She appeals to Wilhelm Meister to rescue her.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 20, 2018
Still, good is never as glamorous as evil, and Wilhelm Meister comes across as a little dull and worthy compared with the hero of Goethe’s most celebrated and canonical work, “Faust.”
From The New Yorker • Feb. 1, 2016
Simionato sang the title role in Ambroise Thomas's Mignon, in October 1947, opposite the young Giuseppe di Stefano as Wilhelm Meister.
From The Guardian • May 7, 2010
She was cast as the bravura coloratura Philene in Mignon, with Ris� Stevens as Mignon and James Melton as Wilhelm Meister; Sir Thomas Beecham was in the pit.
From Time Magazine Archive
Goethe in Wilhelm Meister describes a saintly and naturally gracious woman, who getting into a quarrel over some trumpery detail of religious observance, grows—she and all her little religious community—angry and vindictive.
From Responsibilities and other poems by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)
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