Solitude
LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of Solitude by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 15, 2024.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German polymath, who is widely regarded as the greatest and most influential writer in the German language. His work has had a profound and wide-ranging influence on Western literary, political, and philosophical thought from the late 18th century to the present day. A poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic; his works include plays, poetry and aesthetic criticism, as well as treatises on botany, anatomy, and color. Edgar Alfred Bowring (translator) was a British translator, author and civil servant, serving as a librarian and registrar to the Board of Trade (1848-1863), secretary to the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, and Liberal Member of Parliament for Exeter (1868-1874). He translated various works of poetry from German into English. - Summary by Wikipedia
This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 15, 2024.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German polymath, who is widely regarded as the greatest and most influential writer in the German language. His work has had a profound and wide-ranging influence on Western literary, political, and philosophical thought from the late 18th century to the present day. A poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic; his works include plays, poetry and aesthetic criticism, as well as treatises on botany, anatomy, and color. Edgar Alfred Bowring (translator) was a British translator, author and civil servant, serving as a librarian and registrar to the Board of Trade (1848-1863), secretary to the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, and Liberal Member of Parliament for Exeter (1868-1874). He translated various works of poetry from German into English. - Summary by Wikipedia