The complete online text of Hermann and Dorothea by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is widely recognized as the greatest writer of the German tradition. The Romantic period in Germany (the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries) is known as the Age of Goethe, and Goethe embodies the concerns of the gen...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is widely recognized as the greatest writer of the German tradition. The Romantic period in Germany (the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries) is known as the Age of Goethe, and Goethe embodies the concerns of the gen...

The German poet, dramatist, novelist, and scientist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), who embraced many fields of human endeavor, ranks as the greatest of all German poets. Of all modern men of genius, Goethe is the most universal. The many-sided a...

In 1797 while he was completing his verse epic Hermann und Dorothea,1 Goethe began work on an essay of biblical criticism concerning the Exodus story.2 Based on textual evidence, Goethe argues, the Israelite journey through the wilderness could not have lasted forty years. He...

SCHUMANN Symphonies: No. 1 in B[musical flat ], "Spring";1 No. 2 in C;1 No. 3 in E[musical flat ], "Rhenish";1 No. 4 in d.2 Die Braut von Messina. Hermann und Dorothea * Riccardo Muti, cond; Philharmonia O;1 New Philharmonia O2 * EMI 71497 (2...