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| Art is long, life short; judgment difficult, opportunity transient. |
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| 1749–1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist, and scientist, b. Frankfurt. One of the great masters of world literature, his genius embraced most fields of human endeavor; his art and thought are epitomized in his great dramatic poem Faust.
article.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. (See also: Biographical Note from Harvard Classics.) |
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Pronunciation:  gœ´t from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. |
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- WORKS
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- Faust. Part I
Goethe’s retelling of the classic Faust legend and the crowning achievement of his literary output. From the Harvard Classics, Vol. XIX, Part 1.
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- Egmont
Count Egmont leads an ultimately tragic rebellion against Spanish rule in The Netherlands. From the Harvard Classics, Vol. XIX, Part 3.
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- Hermann and Dorothea
This “novelette in verse” tells the story of a young girl who finds love after fleeing the chaos of the French Revolution. From the Harvard Classics, Vol. XIX, Part 4.
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- Introduction to the Propyläen
From the Harvard Classics, Vol. XXXIX.
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- Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship
From the Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction, Vol. XIV.
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- The Sorrows of Werther
From the Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction, Vol. XV, Part 1.
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- Bartlett’s Goethe Quotations
Epitomal selections by John Bartlett.
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- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 25159 to 25375
Entries from the Columbia World of Quotations.
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