by
Ellen Frothingham, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
There are few modern poems of any country so perfect in their kind as the “Hermann and Dorothea” of Goethe. In clearness of characterization, in unity of tone, in the adjustment of background and foreground, in the conduct of the narrative, it conforms admirably to the strict canons of art; yet it...