Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In her preface she claims the ballad and other popular poetic forms as the especial territory of women writers. Although her poems, says this preface, lack the splendour of Byron or Hugo , or the...

Here Dora became passionate about Goethe and Schiller , Mendelssohn and Schubert , and about theatre in general.

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...

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...

CS 's original poems express her deeply unhappy feelings. With them she included translations from Petrarch and (in verse) of passages from Goethe 's Werther. She added notes to the translations.

Syndy Conger has noted that this novel reveals a shift in Smith's attitude to sensibility in the four years since her sonnets: where she was enthusiastic she is now sceptical, even satirical, in her stance...

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.

Goethe was so impressed with this essay that he translated it into German.

Sarah Harriet Burney , like her famous sister, was troubled at GS 's unconventionality. She wrote that she yawned over De l'Allemagneand yet, here and there, was electrified by a flash of sublimity. Do...

Here she recants the Wertherian romanticism of self-destruction which had stemmed from her early reading of Goethe .

Freya had a German governess until the age of eight, and then an Italian governess who stayed until she was fourteen. More importantly, Freya was close to her grandmother Madeleine Stark , who read...

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...

AS issued her earliest translation, Selections from the Dramas of Goethe and Schiller.

AS published her blank-verse renderings into English of Goethe 's Faust (the first part), together with Egmont, and two plays by him reprinted from her first volume.

AS issued her translation of Goethe 's complete Faust: the first part thoroughly revised, and the second part newly translated.