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Works of Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe: General Scheme Of His Work

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Goethe

Goethe
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
General Scheme Of His Work

Versatility:

It is difficult indeed to assess the scope of a man as versatile as
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. He was an enormously prolific writer, and he
worked steadily from his teen-age years until just a few days before his death
at the age of eighty-two. He excelled in many different types of literature,
notably the drama, the epic, the novel, and the lyric poem; his autobiography
is noteworthy; his literary criticism, if controversial, is nevertheless well
worth reading. His diaries and letters have been collected, and are also of
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