Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The third rejected novel was the story of a young man working at a tedious business job in London who loves art and travel and the good life, who falls in with a powerful and...

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...

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...

It carries an epigraph from Goethe 's Sorrows of Young Werther about the advantages and disadvantages of middle-class society and its codes of conduct. The number of central characters here is higher than in AB

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...

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...