Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The volume contains forty-seven original poems and sixteen translations from German—fourteen of them from Goethe —and two from Italian. In general, the poems have a more optimistic tone than those in the earlier collection...

Set largely in Laffan's home town of Dublin, Hogan, M.P. captures an Ireland whose growing Catholic middle class is challenging the long empowered Protestant ascendancy. The action takes place three or four years before...

The title More Light (which sounds like a quotation of the famous last words of Goethe ) is here spoken by the dying Emperor as he is conveyed into a splendid tomb whose building has...

The Roths were devastated by their daughter's decision to marry a gentile. They disowned her and ceased to give her any financial support. However, this period had its happy moments as well. Q. D. introduced...

Back in Italy after the end of the First World War, VL continued to read widely. She returned to Dante , Shakespeare , and Goethe . She introduced herself to newer writings on philosophy, science...

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...

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...

Violet also had several German and Swiss governesses. Marie Krebs Schülpbach , who taught her at Thun in Switzerland when Violet stayed there in 1866-9, was especially influential: they read theGrimms , Goethe ...

The eighteen-year-old AL published a translation from Goethe in the Cambridge Review; the following August Euphemia, a Sketch appeared in the Victoria Magazine.

AL acknowledged the influence on her poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley , Goethe , Heine , Robert Browning , Swinburne (whose poem Félise she answered in Félise to Her Lover), and James Thomson (the...

The frontispiece shows a woman sitting beside a well with an empty bucket. The caption, in Latin, indicates that she has despaired of finding Truth, which proverbially lies at the bottom of a well. Many...

GHL published the first complete biography of Goethe in any language: The Life and Works of Goethe. George Eliot assisted in the research.

LS took courses in zoology (inspired by Goethe , who wrote on the subject), but switched her focus to literature (after an instructor introduced her to the writings of St Francis of Assissi ). Her...

Roland Graeme, Knight incorporates wide-ranging allusions to figures such as Goethe , Dickens , Browning , Ruskin , Thoreau , Tennyson , Carlyle , and Handel . Critic Carole Gerson compares it to earlier nineteenth-century...

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...