Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Standard Name: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
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Textual Features | Anna Swanwick | |
Textual Features | Anna Swanwick | AS
declares at the outset her belief in the progressive development of the human race, and in the contribution that poetry makes to pushing on that development as well as to witnessing and recording it... |
Textual Features | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | |
Travel | William Makepeace Thackeray | |
Friends, Associates | William Makepeace Thackeray | As well as meeting Goethe
, he had some contact with the intellectual circle presided over by Goethe's daughter-in-law, Ottilie
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins | 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. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press. 1: 414 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins | |
Textual Production | Violet Trefusis | 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. Trefusis, Violet, and Philippe Jullian. Don’t Look Round. Hutchinson. 81 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth von Arnim | Inspired by the spirited correspondence between Goethe
and Bettina von Arnim
, EA
(as the author of Elizabeth and her German Garden) published Fräulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther. Woolf, Virginia. The Essays of Virginia Woolf. Editors McNeillie, Andrew and Stuart Nelson Clarke, Hogarth Press. 1: 136 Usborne, Karen. "Elizabeth": The Author of Elizabeth and Her German Garden. Bodley Head. 117 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth von Arnim | In Berlin, May von Arnim-Schlagenthin first encountered the works of Goethe
and also of Bettina von Arnim
. The latter was a literary and family forebear of her husband, a poet and an associate... |
Textual Production | Eglinton Wallace | EW
made an early venture into print by contributing to the controversy swirling around Goethe
's Werter: A Letter to a Friend, with a Poem called, The Ghost of Werter. Wallace, Eglinton. A Letter to a Friend, with a Poem called, The Ghost of Werter. T. Hookham. 16 |
Author summary | Eglinton Wallace | EW
's career in print spanned less than a decade. She began in 1787, with a published comedy and a contribution to the controversy over Goethe
's sentimental novel Werter a poem and a statement... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jane West | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Edith Wharton | 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... |
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