Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Though she avoids apology and excessive humility, AY seeks sympathy in this volume by touching on her own poverty and suffering. She perhaps took this technique from the craze for Goethe 's Werther, which...

AS 's first volume included two plays by Goethe and one by Schiller , plus her introduction.

AS declares at the outset her belief in the progressive development of the human race, and in the contribution that poetry makes to pushing on that development as well as to witnessing and recording it...

In her preface she claims the ballad and other popular poetic forms as the especial territory of women writers. Although her poems, says this preface, lack the splendour of Byron or Hugo , or the...

The volume contains forty-seven original poems and sixteen translations from German—fourteen of them from Goethe —and two from Italian. In general, the poems have a more optimistic tone than those in the earlier collection...

This was published by Saint Albert's Press at Aylesford in an edition of 500 copies, with 26 copies in hard covers on special paper, signed by the poet and marked with the letters of the...

MF 's earliest known writings were connected to her interest in the works of Goethe . She translated his Torquato Tasso between late 1833 and 1834, although it first appeared in print posthumously, in the...

EST 's second novel, The Victim of Fancy, published as by a Lady, appeared, post-dated 1787. It was epistolary and highly sentimental, composed in response to the cult of Goethe 's (translated) The Sorrows of Werter.

This had a red cover with the same design of a trailing plant that adorned her Songs and Sonnets of Springtime, with the frontispiece image and signature (Constance C.W. Naden) which are...

In her youth Jane Welsh composed verse translations from texts by Goethe and Pierre Cardenal , and of Chateaubriand 's Atala. She also wrote a number of original short poems; two of those that...

One of SA 's most important translations, Characteristics of Goethe (from several German authors), appeared in three volumes.

Following the relaunch of her marriage to Denys Trefusis in early 1922, VT kept a diary that was, she says, entirely given over to that eternally adolescent couple: Weltschmerz and Schadenfreude. She jokingly connected...

EW made an early venture into print by contributing to the controversy swirling around Goethe 's Werter: A Letter to a Friend, with a Poem called, The Ghost of Werter.

Founded on Fact[s] in titles often had no basis in truth, having been used, for instance, on translation from Goethe in 1779 as The Sorrows of Werter. A German Story, Founded on Fact

AS issued her earliest translation, Selections from the Dramas of Goethe and Schiller.