Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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...

Sources suggest that FH contributed, probably around 1821, essays on foreign literature (probably Italian poets) to the Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, perhaps following an essay on Spanish literature to Blackwood's the year before...

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.

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

Jane had greatly enjoyed her time in London, notwithstanding her poor health. Her sadness about returning to Scotland was compounded by the deaths of James Carlyle (Thomas's father) and of Goethe .

This epistolary novel charts the growth of love between two innocent, idealistic youngsters who barely understand their own feelings; the girl (named Olivia, like Owenson's sister ) is betrothed to someone else. Rousseau 's Nouvelle...

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 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 ,...

The remaining third of the volume comprises translations of authors ranging from Lorenzo de Medici to Goethe .

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

The main ambition of Brother Tragedians was to reduce prejudices typically directed towards actresses and actors, by demonstrating their many virtuous qualities. IH 's Introductory Appeal cites Goethe 's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship...

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...

This heroine, who is appealing despite her undeniable priggishness, opens her diary under the aegis of Thomas Carlyle (to whom she would have liked to dedicate her journal had he been alive, because of his...

She writes that the passion for Wagner among the precious and intellectually snobbish is dying out; he is less fashionable now, while Bayreuth is developing a populist, carnival aspect. Wagner snobs, she says, have been...