May 24, 2002, Newsletter Issue #91: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Goethe`s most famous work is "Faust," a poetic drama in two parts, which was finished close to his death in 1832. His first important dramatical work is "Goetz von Berlichingen mit der eisernen Hand" (1773), which was later translated into English by Sir Walter Scott. Goethe is also the author of a semi-autobiographical novel, "Die Leiden des jungen Werthers" (1774), which made him a forrunner for the German "Sturm und Drang" literary movement. Goethe abandoned these ideas in later life for "classicism", as in the drama "Iphigenie auf Tauris" (1787), based on Euripides, or in "Roemische Elegien" (poetry, 1797). In Britain, Goethe exercised an enormous influence on Carlyle, who translated him and wrote essays on his work, thus introducing him to a whole generation of Victorians and authors like George Elliot and Matthew Arnold.

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