The Works of J.W. von Goethe, Vol. IX (in 14 volumes) : with His Life by George Henry Lewes: Poems of Goethe, Vol. I

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang

ISBN 10: 1646792017 / ISBN 13: 9781646792016

Published by Cosimo Classics, 2020

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Works of J.W. von Goethe, Vol. IX (in 14 volumes) : with His Life by George Henry Lewes: Poems of Goethe, Vol. I
• Publisher: Cosimo Classics
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1646792017
• ISBN 13: 9781646792016
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

"The meadow, it is pretty,

With flowers so fair to see;

I gather them, but no one

Will take the flowers from me."

--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sheperd's Lament in Poems of Goethe

The Works of J.W. von Goethe, Vol. IX--Poems of Goethe by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is part of a 14-volume set originally published in 1901-1902.

About the Author

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE (1749-1832) was a German poet, writer, scientist, statesman, and one of the greatest German literary figures. Goethe, the eldest of seven children born in a wealthy Frankfurt family, studied law at the universities of Leipzig and Strasbourg. He wrote novels and poetry, dramas, treatises on botany and literary criticism, among which his successful novels The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) and Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (1795). Early in his life, Goethe was a member of the Sturm und Drang literary movement, emphasizing free expression of emotions over the restraints of rationalism. Later, Goethe, together with Friedrich Schiller, initiated the Weimar Classicism, a cultural movement based on a synthesis of Romanticism, Classicism and the Enlightenment.