第4章 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe(28 August 1749-22 March 1832)was a German writer and statesman.His body of work includes epic and lyric poetry written in a variety of metres and styles;prose and verse dramas;memoirs;an autobiography;literary and aesthetic criticism;treatises on botany,anatomy,and colour;and four novels.Goethe was ennobled by the Duke of Saxe-Weimar,Karl August in 1782 after first taking up residence there in November 1775 following the success of his first novel,The Sorrows of Young Werther.In 1808,he published the first part of his most celebrated drama,Faust.