Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Browning line (How good is man's life, the mere living!) is quoted as epigraph, along with a passage from Goethe which is also about enjoyment of life.

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...

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 ,...

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...

For SN , writing began as an act of rebellion. She wrote her first poem at the age of eleven when she became frustrated with an algebra problem, and thereupon decided to become a poet....

The novel takes its epigraph from Goethe 's Faust.CN 's heroine, Beatrice Brooke, is tricked into elopement at seventeen by Montague Treherne. First he invites her onto a boat at Venice...

Indebted to the tradition of Goethe 's Faust, the story may have influenced Marie Corelli 's Sorrows of Satan (1895).

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.

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...

Founded on Fact[s] in titles often had no basis in truth, having been used, for instance, on translation from Goethe in 1779 as The Sorrows of Werter. A German Story, Founded on Fact

After Greystone House, Emmeline Pethick started attending a Quaker school in Weston-super-Mare, where her family had moved. She became a boarder at this school when she was twelve. There one of the incidents...

She was invited to write for the magazine by John Middleton Murry , who founded it in 1923, though both he and Katherine Mansfield had published negative reviews of earlier volumes of Pilgrimage.

In her correspondence Richardson addresses a great range of topics, including her own varied reading. She comments on women writers from Julian of Norwich through Jane Austen , Emily and Charlotte Brontë , George Eliot

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...

During a second trip to Germany, ER penned a solid but unfriendly article on Goethe . It appeared in the Foreign Quarterly Review in 1836.