Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Their move back to England was facilitated by a legacy of £5,000 from Anne's father. They bought the estate the previous year for £13,000 (including standing timber worth £3,280). AM sold the house, estate...

Some time after her years of schooling and her trip to abroad, BRP visited Italy. She also went to Germany in order to make a pilgrimage to Goethe 's Weimar.

WMT spent six months in Germany, primarily in Weimar, where he met Goethe .

Many of these poems were influenced by music and showed her facility in developing pleasant rhythmic effects in her verse. Her subjects include self-discovery, religious faith, and the creative process. The first poem...

EST wrote a verse dedication of this novel to the poet William Hayley , with allusions which show her to be well acquainted with his writings. She addresses him as a patron of writing women...

Her range of literary reference and comment is wide: as well as Richardson (whose Clarissa she unequivocally praises), it encompasses Blair , Sterne and Smollett as travel-writers, and Homer . Grant charges Samuel Johnson

JW provided two prefaces, one to the poems and one to the plays. The latter calls contemporary German playwrights (Schiller , Goethe , Kotzebue ) contemptible in composition. Her...

Her other topics include artists and male literary figures, including Carlyle , Goethe , Emerson , and Shakespeare . Fifteen poems in the collection are written about places, among them London, Birmingham, and...

This was published by Saint Albert's Press at Aylesford in an edition of 500 copies, with 26 copies in hard covers on special paper, signed by the poet and marked with the letters of the...

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...

EST 's second novel, The Victim of Fancy, published as by a Lady, appeared, post-dated 1787. It was epistolary and highly sentimental, composed in response to the cult of Goethe 's (translated) The Sorrows of Werter.

This had a red cover with the same design of a trailing plant that adorned her Songs and Sonnets of Springtime, with the frontispiece image and signature (Constance C.W. Naden) which are...

In her youth Jane Welsh composed verse translations from texts by Goethe and Pierre Cardenal , and of Chateaubriand 's Atala. She also wrote a number of original short poems; two of those that...

One of SA 's most important translations, Characteristics of Goethe (from several German authors), appeared in three volumes.

Following the relaunch of her marriage to Denys Trefusis in early 1922, VT kept a diary that was, she says, entirely given over to that eternally adolescent couple: Weltschmerz and Schadenfreude. She jokingly connected...