Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 10.8k books 5,843 followers A master of poetry, drama, and the novel, German writer and scientist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe spent 50 years on his two-part dramatic poem Faust , published in 1808 and 1832, also conducted scientific research in various fields, notably botany, and held several governmental positions. Before he was thirty, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe had proven himself a master of the novel, drama, and lyric poetry. But even more impressive than his versatility was his unwillingness ever to settle into a single style or approach; whenever he used a literary form, he made it something new.Born in 1749 to a well-to-do family in Frankfurt, he was sent to Strasbourg to earn a law degree. Poetry, literature that evokes a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience or a specific emotional response through language chosen and arranged for its meaning, sound, and rhythm. (Read Britannica’s biography of this author, Howard Nemerov.) Poetry is a vast subject, as old as history and. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, (born Aug. 28 The Sorrows of Young Werther is an epistolary novel written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in 1774. The storyline is represented by a collection of letters that seems to be written by Werther, a young person from a rich middle-class German family, to his friend Wilhelm. In his letters, he talks about his experiences of leaving his own family and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 10.8k books 5,879 followers A master of poetry, drama, and the novel, German writer and scientist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe spent 50 years on his two-part dramatic poem Faust , published in 1808 and 1832, also conducted scientific research in various fields, notably botany, and held several governmental positions. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) was one of the greatest writers of the German Romantic period. Matthew Bell is professor of German and comparative literature at King's College London. His books include Goethe’s Naturalistic Anthropology and Melancholia: The Western Malady . The quintessential Dichter and Denker, he was a poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic. Born in 1749 in Frankfurt am Main, Goethe rose to fame with the drama Götz von Berlichingen and the novel The Sorrows of Young Werther. Werther, the hero of the latter story, even was a role model for many young Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born in Frankfurt-on-Main in 1749. He studied at Leipzig, where he showed interest in the occult, and at Strassburg, where Herder introduced him to Shakespeare’s works and to folk poetry. A biography of Faust, the Historia von D. Johann Fausten, based upon the shadowy life of Faust the Younger, but including many of the fanciful legendary stories, was published in Frankfurt in 1587. That same year it was translated into English as The Historie of the damnable life and deserved death of Doctor John Faustus. About this eBook. Author. Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832. Translator. Brooks, Charles Timothy, 1813-1883. Title. Faust: a Tragedy [part 1], Translated from the German of Goethe. Note. See also PG #14591 tr. by Bayard Taylor and Illustrated by Harry Clarke. x4ZK.