Diderot's Essais sur la peinture was described by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, as " a magnificent work, which speaks even more helpfully to the poet than to the painter, though to the painter too it is as a blazing torch.

It has inspired writers from Goethe and Dickens to Joyce and Murdoch, and has been described as " the world's most filmed story after Cinderella ".

He described Shakespeare and Goethe in an 1828 letter as " the silent confidants of my suffering ; they hold the key to my life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe described chamber music ( specifically, string quartet music ) as " four rational people conversing.

The state of mind produced by that shock is reflected in his novel Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis ( The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis ) ( 1798 ), which was described by the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica as a more politicized version of Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther, " for the hero of Foscolo embodies the mental sufferings and suicide of an undeceived Italian patriot just as the hero of Goethe places before us the too delicate sensitiveness embittering and at last cutting short the life of a private German scholar.

Goethe described his feelings on the summit later, as follows: So lonely, I say to myself, while looking down at this peak, will it feel to the person, who only wants to open his soul to the oldest, first, deepest feelings of truth.

He described Nietzsche's philosophy as " aristocratic radicalism ", a description which delighted Nietzsche, and the idea of " aristocratic radicalism " influenced most of the later works of Brandes and resulted in voluminous biographies Wolfgang Goethe ( 1914 – 15 ), Francois de Voltaire ( 1916 – 17 ), Gaius Julius Cæsar 1918 and Michelangelo ( 1921 ).

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe described the philistine personality.

In a letter written to Count Semyon Romanovich Vorontsov in 1792, Miranda described a late-night conversation which he had with Goethe at a party in Weimar, Germany during the winter of 1785.

Miranda described a late-night conversation he had with Goethe at a party in Weimar during the winter of 1785.

Acting Prime Minister Goethe once described Weimar as " Athens on the Ilm ".

His Essais sur la peinture was described by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, as " a magnificent work, which speaks even more helpfully to the poet than to the painter, though to the painter too it is as a blazing torch.

This sport and its champions were described by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Karl Philipp Moritz, Christian Joseph Jagemann, Richard Colt Hoare, Jacob Burckhardt, William Wetmore Story, Giacomo Leopardi, Edmondo de Amicis, Giuseppe Baretti, Antonio Francesco Grazzini, Ottavio Rinuccini, Gabriello Chiabrera, Tommaso Grossi, Giuseppe Gioachino Belli.

Goethe, who beheld Nikolaus in Frankfurt on a diplomatic mission in 1764, described him as ' not tall, though well-formed, lively, and at the same time eminently decorous, without pride or coldness.

It was built in honour of a poem by the local poet Karl Heinrich Ehrt, who described how Goethe enjoyed taking walks in the area and looking down upon the town.

In 1777, Goethe climbed the Brocken, departing from Torfhaus.

The Brocken has always played a role in legends and has been connected with witches and devils ; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe took up the legends in his play Faust.

The Goethe Way ( Goetheweg ) is a well known trail that leads to the summit of the Brocken.

** Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ( part 1 1806, part 2 c. 1833 )

* 1827 – Goethe Faust fragment

* Goethe publishes Faust, part I.

Goethe also used Puck in the first half of Faust, in a scene entitled " A Walpurgis Night Dream ", where he played off of the spirit Ariel from The Tempest.

* German poet and polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe re-envisioned the meeting of Faust and Helen.

The 1725 Faust chapbook was widely circulated, and also read by the young Goethe.

Another important version of the legend is the play Faust, published in 1808 by the German author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

* Johann Wolfgang Goethe took the figures from Shakespeare's work to Faust I. Oberon is married to Titania, and the couple are celebrating their golden wedding anniversary in Faust I.

Samuel West has received seven AudioFile Earphones Awards for his narration: The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham ( 1996 ), Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie ( 1997 ), Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks ( 1999 ), The Way I Found Her by Rose Tremain ( 2000 ), The Swimming Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst ( 2007 ), Faust by Goethe ( 2011 ) and A Shropshire Lad by A. E. Housman ( 2011 ).

In the 1725 version which was read by Goethe, Mephostophiles is a devil in the form of a greyfriar summoned by Faust in a wood outside Wittenberg.

His talent for translation was made manifest in his translation of Goethe's Faust ( 1828 ), the work which earned him his reputation ; Goethe praised it, and Hector Berlioz later used sections for his legend-symphony La damnation de Faust.

* Johann Wolfgang von Goethe used the first, the sixth and the seventh stanza of the hymn in the scene " Cathedral " in the first part of his drama Faust ( 1808 ).

# Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Faust ; Poetry and Truth

He had already, in his Goethes Faust in seiner Einheit und Ganzheit ( 1836 ) and Goethe als Dramatiker ( 1837 ), advocated a new critical method in interpreting the German classics, which he wished to see treated like the ancient classics.

* Johann Wolfgang von Goethe completes Faust

All of these disapproved of the negative depiction of Faust as a renegade and accused the work of being " a slap in the face of German national feeling " and of having " formalistically deformed one of the greatest works of our German poet Goethe " ( Ulbricht ).

The great Goethe has given us a distinct and visible description of this denial of the will, brought about by great misfortune and by the despair of all deliverance, in his immortal masterpiece Faust, in the story of the sufferings of Gretchen.

* Goethe, J. W. von Faust Hutchinson 1908

# Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Faust ; Poetry and Truth

* Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust, 2001 TV

115 ( Zur Namensfeier ) to him, while Goethe participated in his efforts to write the music for his Faust.

Late in the 18th century the first wave of Romantics such as Goethe and Turner came to admire the scenery ; Wordsworth visited the area in 1790, writing of his experiences in The Prelude.

In the German-speaking states Michael Denis made the first full translation in 1768, inspiring the proto-nationalist poets Klopstock and Goethe, whose own German translation of a portion of Macpherson's work figures prominently in a climactic scene of The Sorrows of Young Werther ( 1774 ).

* 1774: The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe first published

His lectures at the university, in which Goethe and Schiller were revealed to the Danish public for the first time, created a great sensation.

Here he wrote the first of his great historical tragedies, Hakon Jarl, which he sent off to Copenhagen, and then proceeded for the winter months to Berlin, where he associated with Humboldt, Fichte, and the leading men of the day, and met Goethe for the first time.

In gratitude, Goethe became one of the first and most commonly seen figures in Johanna's reunions.

It has been a site of pilgrimage for the German intelligentsia since Goethe first moved to Weimar in the late 18th century.

Schumann also incorporated " La Marseillaise " as a major motif in his overture Hermann und Dorothea, inspired by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and quotes it, in waltz rhythm, in the first movement of Faschingsschwank aus Wien, for solo piano.

Les Troyens proved to be a very personal work for Berlioz, as it paid homage to his first literary love, whom he still cherished – even after his discoveries of Shakespeare and Goethe.

He abandoned his activities as a critic in 1887 and began composing once more ; perhaps not unexpectedly, the first songs he wrote after his compositional hiatus ( to poems by Goethe, Joseph von Eichendorff and Joseph Viktor von Scheffel ) emphasized themes of strength and resolution under adversity.

Taormina's first important tourist was Johann Wolfgang Goethe who dedicated exalting pages to the city in his book entitled Italian Journey, but perhaps it was Geleng ’ s views that made its beauty talked about throughout Europe and turned the site into a famous tourist center.

It may be assumed that Oken when a Privatdozent at Göttingen in 1806 knew nothing of this unpublished idea or discovery of Goethe, and that Goethe first became aware that Oken had the idea of the vertebral relations of the skull when he listened to the introductory discourse in which the young professor, invited by the poet to Jena, selected this very idea for its subject.

It was first translated to English and then from English to German, where it was received with wonder and fascination by a group of eminent poets, which included Herder and Goethe.

Hermann and Dorothea is an epic poem, an idyll, written by German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe between 1796 and 1797, and was to some extent suggested by Johann Heinrich Voss's Luise, an idyll in hexameters, which was first published in 1782-84.

Moltke recorded excerpts from Shakespeare and Goethe on two cylinders, recordings which were first lost until 1957 and were unidentified decades after.

In 1782 the ladies, inspired partly by Goethe, published their first novel, Sara Burgerhart, which was enthusiastically received.

The first is Radio Goethe magazine which is generally a news style program that often includes interviews and news of German interest.

Johanna's mother, Bertha Hirsch, was known as " Frau Kultur " ( Madame Culture ) and opened the first public library in Germany ; Bertha's friends included Schiller and Goethe ( Bertha had manuscript versions of some of Goethe's works ).