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"Harzreise im Winter" was the last of Goethe's works in his Sturm und Drang period, marking the end of a series of long, free-verse poems hymns by the young poet that had begun with "Wandrers Sturmlied", and it is less self-absorbed than his earlier writing. It was first published in 1789 in the eighth volume of his works.
When Goethe completed Werther, he likened his mood to one experienced “after a general confession, joyous and free and entitled to a new life”. For Goethe the Werther effect was a cathartic one, freeing himself from the despair in his life. [3] The book reputedly also led to some of the first known examples of copycat suicide. The men were ...
Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt" ("Only he who knows yearning") is a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The poem appears in the 11th chapter of Book Four of Goethe's novel Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship. In the novel, it is sung as a duet by Mignon and the harpist (Augustin) the latter being revealed as her father at the end of the novel. [1] [2]
Friedrich Georg Goethe was married twice, his first marriage was to Anna Elisabeth Lutz (1667–1700), the daughter of a burgher Sebastian Lutz (died 1701), with whom he had five children, including Hermann Jakob Goethe (1697–1761), after the death of his first wife in 1705 he married Cornelia Schellhorn, née Walther (1668–1754), widow of ...
The Autobiography of Johann Goethe: Truth and Poetry from my own Life archive.org, books 1–13; The Autobiography of Johann Goethe: Truth and Poetry from my own Life archive.org, books 10–20; Memoirs of Goethe: written by himself Printed for Henry Colburn 1824; The Autobiography of Goethe public domain audiobook at LibriVox
Frontispiece and title page of the first edition, Cotta publishing house, Stuttgart, 1819. West–östlicher Divan (German: [ˈvɛst ˈœstlɪçɐ ˈdiːvaːn] ⓘ; West–Eastern Diwan) is a diwan, or collection of lyrical poems, by the German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
1827 edition "Wanderer's Nightsong" (original German title: "Wandrers Nachtlied") is the title of two poems by the German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.Written in 1776 ("Der du von dem Himmel bist") and in 1780 ("Über allen Gipfeln "), they are among Goethe's most famous works.
"Ganymed" is a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in which the character of the mythic youth Ganymede is seduced by God (or Zeus) through the beauty of Spring. In early editions of the Collected Works it appeared in Volume II of Goethe's poems in a section of Vermischte Gedichte (assorted poems), shortly following the " Gesang der Geister ...