Profiles in Poetry: Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Aug 12, 2021

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The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) remains Germany’s most popular poet and arguably its best, alongside Friedrich Schiller. Born into a bourgeois upper-middle-class family in Frankfurt, he spent his early years as a leading voice in the Romantic literary movement k…

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