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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Critical Survey of Drama)
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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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