Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...in his great dramatic poem Faust. Early Life and Works Goethe describes his happy and sheltered childhood in his autobiography, Dichtung und...long convalescence at Frankfurt. His earliest lyric poems, set to music, were published...music; Romische Elegien (1788); the psychological drama Torquato Tasso (1789); the...