Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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...

EW 's career in print spanned less than a decade. She began in 1787, with a published comedy and a contribution to the controversy over Goethe 's sentimental novel Werter a poem and a statement...

Sources suggest that FH contributed, probably around 1821, essays on foreign literature (probably Italian poets) to the Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, perhaps following an essay on Spanish literature to Blackwood's the year before...

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 eighteen-year-old AL published a translation from Goethe in the Cambridge Review; the following August Euphemia, a Sketch appeared in the Victoria Magazine.

Jane had greatly enjoyed her time in London, notwithstanding her poor health. Her sadness about returning to Scotland was compounded by the deaths of James Carlyle (Thomas's father) and of Goethe .

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 epistolary novel charts the growth of love between two innocent, idealistic youngsters who barely understand their own feelings; the girl (named Olivia, like Owenson's sister ) is betrothed to someone else. Rousseau 's Nouvelle...

The title More Light (which sounds like a quotation of the famous last words of Goethe ) is here spoken by the dying Emperor as he is conveyed into a splendid tomb whose building has...

The book is divided into four sections: The Astronomer, etc., The Lady Doctor, etc. (from the poem already printed in London Society), Sonnets, and Translations (which come from Schiller , Goethe ,...

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

Here she recants the Wertherian romanticism of self-destruction which had stemmed from her early reading of Goethe .