person
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Goethe
also: Goethe, GSthe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), Germany's greatest writer and the dominant cultural authority of early 19th-century European Romanticism; cited (with dubious attribution) as the source of the 'Plea for Sleep' epigraph.
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- First Attempts (Juvenilia) §30 Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), Germany's greatest writer and the dominant cultural authority of early 19th-century European Romanticism; cited (with dubious attribution) as the source of the 'Plea for Sleep' epigraph.