Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Critical Survey of Drama)
Other Literary Forms
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe made substantial contributions to
German letters in almost every genre. He is generally recognized as
one of the world’s greatest lyric poets. Especially important
in a vast array of powerful and diverse poems styled in many meters
and forms are his Römische Elegien (1793; Roman
Elegies, 1876), the exuberant love lyrics of
Westöstlicher Divan (1819; West-Eastern Divan,
1877), and the magnificent ballads that he created during his
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