Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

This novel has two sections, Dream-Life and The Awakening, with an Intermezzo between the two: love is not part of the dream, but of the awakening to reality. The title-page quotation from La Fontaine

An important social and cultural critic in the United States in the mid-nineteenth century, MF published in a variety of forms, including travel literature, translations from German (notably Goethe , about whom she also published...

MF 's Unitarian ism introduced her to a vibrant intellectual community in Cambridge, and at a fairly young age she became a central figure in a social circle that included George Ripley , William Henry Channing

The Conversations were not without their critics, however. Maria Weston Chapman , head of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society , criticised them for failing to address abolition explicitly. Chapman may have influenced the opinion which...

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...

AF changed publishers from Dodsley to Becket when she added to the voices raised in response to Goethe in Charlotte to Werther. A Poetical Epistle.

AF writes in the style of mid-century poets Gray and especially Collins , whose names she specifically invokes and whose words she echoes, along with classics of the past like Petrarch . She records an...

She acquired much knowledge through her voracious consumption of books: I loved books, and read all that I could get hold of, and have had many a rebuke for poring over those books instead of...

She designed it to combat the influence of romantic fiction, and to answer Germaine de Staël 's Delphine and Goethe 's Sorrows of Werther. Leonora is ME 's next ideal domestic woman after...

This heroine, who is appealing despite her undeniable priggishness, opens her diary under the aegis of Thomas Carlyle (to whom she would have liked to dedicate her journal had he been alive, because of his...

Neilson detected Werterism in HC 's poems: a tragic sentimentality and preference for suicidal and murderous subjects, which conformed to a current mode even if it was not in fact a direct response to Goethe .

HC does not describe her education, but she often chooses French authors to quote on title-pages, and was said to be steeped in Goethe 's Werter.

A manuscript of HC 's collected poems has been mentioned, but has not been traced. Overall, in fact, little survives, though she included The Maid of Enterkin in her first novel, and George Neilson

The remaining third of the volume comprises translations of authors ranging from Lorenzo de Medici to Goethe .

But by the end of his first visit, Jane Welsh agreed to allow Carlyle to supervise her reading, and on his departure he provided her with a list of books by authors including Tasso ,...