Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

MBE set a great deal of store by meeting men distinguished as authors or in other fields, as a spur to literary achievement of her own. She was given to boasting of her acquaintance with...

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...

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

The Christmas rupture with Burns seems to have taken effect only gradually. After the key event Burns sent MR a copy of Werther (Goethe 's novel, probably in English translation) as well as returning...

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...

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...

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...

The book is also a model of female erudition, peppered with foreign phrases, references to earlier Shakespeare critics, to the visual arts, and to other authors, including the ancient Greek dramatists and the German romanticists...

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

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...

Her model for the sonnet, as well as for the use of male erotic voices from Petrarch and Goethe , was Charlotte Smith , though AB 's tone is more unrestrained and impassioned than Smith's.

EJ invoked as an appropriate description of her own motivation, Flaubert 's dictum that writing comes from an inner wound. She said of Johnson 's Rasselas and Goethe 's Elective Affinities (both of which...

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...

The contents included odes, sonnets (including one sequence from Petrarch and another based on Goethe 's Werther, in which she speaks as the male lover of a woman, with notes relating her poems to...

More takes a sceptical view of sensibility: she reproves both the representation of it in Goethe 's Werther (which had been available in English for about three years) and the sentimental enthusiasm which the book...