Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A manuscript of HC 's collected poems has been mentioned, but has not been traced. Overall, in fact, little survives, though she included The Maid of Enterkin in her first novel, and George Neilson

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...

An important social and cultural critic in the United States in the mid-nineteenth century, MF published in a variety of forms, including travel literature, translations from German (notably Goethe , about whom she also published...

In 1814, TC left the University of Edinburgh and started teaching, taking up a position at Annan Academy . He returned to Edinburgh in 1819 to pursue his literary aspirations. While there, he also worked...

The Conversations were not without their critics, however. Maria Weston Chapman , head of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society , criticised them for failing to address abolition explicitly. Chapman may have influenced the opinion which...

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

Neilson detected Werterism in HC 's poems: a tragic sentimentality and preference for suicidal and murderous subjects, which conformed to a current mode even if it was not in fact a direct response to Goethe .

Rossetti deeply admired this picture, which was Pre-Raphaelite in technique, showing a woman in mourning pose in sunlight, and was inspired by Goethe 's Faust. Howitt's paintings generally focused on melancholy female subjects or...

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...

The epigraph, she said, came from an (unidentified) old English author. It reads (slightly differently rendered in different versions): And there was moche playe and entreplaye of musick, divers instrumentys makyng mynstralsy with eche other...

FH studied German earnestly during this period of her life, and preferred Schiller to Goethe .

This collection of essays marks her turn from the search for pure aesthetic perception and expression towards the growth of social conscience. She frames this change by her reading of Pater 's Marius the Epicurean...

Her model for the sonnet, as well as for the use of male erotic voices from Petrarch and Goethe , was Charlotte Smith , though AB 's tone is more unrestrained and impassioned than Smith's.

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

VL 's supernatural stories are concerned with the spiritual essences of places and past cultures, often represented through the reappearances of classical goddesses and gods, or comparatively lesser-known Renaissance and eighteenth-century figures. Vineta Colby finds...