Goethe's magnum opus, lauded as one of the peaks of world literature, is the two-part drama Faust . Through the lied , or “art-song,” a new dimension was added to the poems, and with it a new understanding of their meaning, music, and magic.

My short poem is about the gentle soft blue of the summer sky, the wonder and beauty of the ocean, the rays of the warm glistening sun, the fun and the splendor of Summer spent by the seaside for the young, old, and everyone in between. Everyday life and leisure time become … He came, on his father’s side, of Thuringian stock, his great-grandfather, Hans Christian Goethe, havi

It is a time of romance, excitement and an enhanced enjoyment of life. German poet, dramatist and philosopher, was born at Frankfort-on-Main on the 28th of August 1749.

Poems by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Each single line rhymes with a line from the couplet, one starting and one completing the stanza.

It's just a mystical place to be during Summer… Summer is the stuff of dreams. Composers such as Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Fanny Hensel, and Robert and Clara Schumann set his poems … While the excitement the composers felt in reading Goethe’s poems is only imaginable, it is a truly amazing experience to hear how these geniuses decided to set Goethe’s poems to music.

During his almost daily visits, the elder opened his eyes to the original linguistic power of authors such as Homer, Shakespeare and Ossian and to popular poetry, thus providing decisive impulses for Goethe’s poetic development.
Goethe was 26 and he refers to his love to Lilli Schönemann, a rich banker`s daughter in Frankfurt in the second stanza of the poem as golden dreams.

Very fond of music himself, Goethe inspired countless composers and musicians. In winter I get up at night. Here is the suggested pattern, there is no set meter: In the summer of 1771 Goethe submitted his legal dissertation on the relationship between state and church. With this one each stanza comprises of a single line, a couplet and a single line.

Know his incantation, Spell and gestures too; By my mind's creation Wonders shall I do. Goethe's works span the fields of poetry, drama, literature, theology, humanism, and science. Summer is the time of infinite fun. Goethe’s Gartenhaus (garden/summer house) in Weimar, Germany is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Gone's for once the old magician With his countenance forbidding; I 'm now master, I 'm tactician, All his ghosts must do my bidding. About 100 million people speak German as their mother tongue, almost all of them are at home in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

The day seems to last forever, and the fun never stops. To learn German effectively, a German-speaking environment is a great advantage. Robert Louis Stevenson is best known as the author of the children’s classic Treasure Island (1882), and the adult horror story, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886).Both of these novels have curious origins. In particular, the 19 th century saw many of Goethe’s poems turned into musical works. Percy Shelley’s “Summer and Winter” is part of our summer poetry series, dedicated to making the months of vacation lyrical again.