Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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...

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 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...

EJ invoked as an appropriate description of her own motivation, Flaubert 's dictum that writing comes from an inner wound. She said of Johnson 's Rasselas and Goethe 's Elective Affinities (both of which...

ABJ met Ottilie von Goethe , the widow of Goethe 's son August; Jameson supported her when she became pregnant out of wedlock in 1835.

The book is also a model of female erudition, peppered with foreign phrases, references to earlier Shakespeare critics, to the visual arts, and to other authors, including the ancient Greek dramatists and the German romanticists...

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...

Although she briefly attended young ladies' schools, JWH was mainly educated at home. She was tutored by Joseph Cogswell , who would go on to head the Astor Library . Under his instruction she mastered...

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...

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...

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

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 volume takes its epigraphs and historical starting-points from a wide range of sources, including major male Romantics—Wordsworth , Byron , Coleridge , Goethe , Schiller —and lesser-known contemporaries including women—Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger

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...

Her range of literary reference and comment is wide: as well as Richardson (whose Clarissa she unequivocally praises), it encompasses Blair , Sterne and Smollett as travel-writers, and Homer . Grant charges Samuel Johnson