Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

As well as meeting Goethe , he had some contact with the intellectual circle presided over by Goethe's daughter-in-law, Ottilie .

JWC and Thomas shared an admiration for Goethe . Thomas corresponded with him, and Jane netted him a purse. In reply Goethe sent the couple medallions and books, and for Jane he included a locket...

Back in Italy after the end of the First World War, VL continued to read widely. She returned to Dante , Shakespeare , and Goethe . She introduced herself to newer writings on philosophy, science...

On 11 May 1812 Henry Crabb Robinson recorded in his diary meeting JB and other women writers on a visit to Miss Benjers (Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger ). In his account of this pleasant evening...

In Germany she was celebrated as the author of Delphine. She met with Schiller , Goethe , Henry Crabb Robinson , and Schlegel , whom she persuaded to tutor her three living children.

After an epigraph from Goethe (in German) EW begins with her earliest memory, which she identifies with the birth of identity and relates in the third person, of the little girl who eventually became me...

AL acknowledged the influence on her poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley , Goethe , Heine , Robert Browning , Swinburne (whose poem Félise she answered in Félise to Her Lover), and James Thomson (the...

This novel re-writes Rousseau 's Julie; ou, La nouvelle Héloise in the sentimental style of Frances Sheridan 's Sidney Bidulph or Henry Mackenzie 's Julia de Roubigné. The love-triangle of Williams's Julia is...

The poems are printed chronologically (by the author's desire rather than the editor's). MBE 's introduction says nothing about her subject's parentage or his life-history, but canvasses the issues involved in selecting from his poems...

Critic Shirley Neuman sees this opera as an important step towards the final version of Ida.GS 's Faustus (unlike Marlowe 's or Goethe 's) is tormented by the fact that he cannot go...

Julia is layered with allusion not only to Rousseau and Goethe but also to John Home 's tragedy Douglas.

Robert Lee Wolff argues that this is one of MEB 's very best Wilkie Collins -style investigations. As in much of MEB 's other fiction in this style, the reader can easily and...

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...

Set on the coast of Devon fifty years earlier, it traces the fates of two strong characters: Methodist preacher and shopkeeper Joshua Haggard and his daughter Naomi. In the opening scene, Joshua rescues Oswald Pentreath...

Roland Graeme, Knight incorporates wide-ranging allusions to figures such as Goethe , Dickens , Browning , Ruskin , Thoreau , Tennyson , Carlyle , and Handel . Critic Carole Gerson compares it to earlier nineteenth-century...