Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) is the most prominent and influential figure in German letters. Born in Frankfurt, he published his breakout novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther, in 1774 at the age of twenty-five, and the first part of his lyric masterpiece, Faust, in 1808. Goethe was a poet, novelist, literary critic, diplomat, and scientist, publishing works crossing the spectrum from tales of romantic despair to dense scientific tomes. His involvement in the literary movement Sturm und Drang was formative in the development of Romanticism, and his writings created a new paradigm in German high culture. Zsuzsanna Ozsváth is the Leah and Paul Lewis Chair of Holocaust Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas and Director of the Holocaust Studies Program. Ozsváth received her PhD from the University of Texas at Austin, and her research focuses on aesthetics and ethics in German, Hungarian, and French literature. In 1992, she received the Milan Fust Prize, Hungary¿s most prestigious literary prize, with her co-translator, Frederick Turner, for Foamy Sky: The Major Poems of Miklos Radnoti (Princeton University Press, 1992). Frederick Turner is Founders Professor of Arts and Humanities at the University of Texas at Dallas. Turner received his B.Litt, a PhD-level terminal degree, from Oxford University, and his research considers poetry, aesthetics, and Shakespeare. He received the prestigious Milan Fust Prize with co-translator Zsuzsanna Ozsváth for Foamy Sky: The Major Poems of Miklos Radnoti (Princeton University Press) in 1992.
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Introduction: A Biographical Sketch
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Dedication 1770 The Luck of Love, 1769-70 Maying, 1771 Welcome and Farewell, 1771 Wild-Rose, 1771 The New Amadis, 1771-1774 The Wanderer
s Storm-Song, 1772 Mahomet
s Song, 1772-1773 Prometheus, 1773 Ganymede, 1774 The King in Thule, 1774 To Cousin Kronos, the Coachman, 1774 On the Lake, 1775 The Artist
s Evening Song, 1775 The Bliss of Grief, 1775 Wanderer
s Night-Song, 1776 (1) To Charlotte von Stein, 1776 Restless Love, 1776 Winter Journey in the Harz, 1777 To the Moon, 1777 All Things the Gods Bestow, 1777 Take This to Heart, 1777 The Fisherman, 1778 Song of the Spirits upon the Waters, 1779 Song of the Parcae, 1779 Wanderer
s Night Song, 1780 (2) Night Thoughts, 1781 Human Limitations, 1781 My Goddess, 1781 The Elf-King, 1782 Divinity, early 1780s
Joyful and Woeful,
1788 Morning Complaints, 1888 Five Roman Elegies (1788-1790): I, Speak, O stones of Rome
III, Do not regret, beloved,
V, Happy I find myself
VII. How merry I am in Rome!... IX. Flames, autumnal, glow
The Nearness of the Beloved, 1795 The Silent Sea, 1796
Do you know that land where lemon blossoms
Ah, none but those who yearn ,
W. M.
Who Never Ate His Bread with Tears,
W. M. The Sorcerer
s Apprentice, 1797 The God and the Dancer, 1797 The Bride of Corinth, 1797 The Metamorphosis of the Plants, 1799 Nature and Art, 1802 Permanence in Change, 1803 Night Song, 1804 World Soul, 1806 The Sonnet, 1806 The Metamorphosis of the Animals, 1806 Farewell, 1807 The Lover Writes Again, 1807-8 Take This to Heart, 1815 8 Poems from Goethe
s Der West-
stliche Divan Talismans, 1814-15 Blessed Yearning, 1814-15 To Zuleika, 1814-15 Ginkgo Biloba, 1814-15 Limitless, 1814-15 In a Thousand Forms, 1814-15 The Higher and the Highest, 1818 Elements, before 1815 Parabolic, 1815 Limitation, 1815 To Luna, 1815 Lovely is the Night, 1815 Muteness, 1816 Proem, 1816 Ur-Words. Orphic, 1817-18 At Midnight, 1818 Refinding, 1819 In Honor of Luke Howard, 1820 Always and Everywhere, 1820 The One and the All, 1821 Trilogy of Passion, 1823 The Pariah, probably 1823 The Bridegroom, probably 1825 From The Legacy, 1827 From the Chinese-German Daybook-Yearbook: 8. Twilight from the Heights. . . 1827-28; Full Moon Rising, 1828, Dornburg, 1828, Ten poems from Faust, 1770-1829 1. Dedication 2. Prologue in Heaven 3. Faust in his Study 4. Faust Translating the Gospel 5. In Marthäs Garden 6. Mephistopheles speaks 7. The Bailey 8. Gretchen at the Spinning-Wheel 9. Faust
s Remorse 10. Chorus Mysticus Goethe the Revolutionary List of English and German Titles
