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Art is long, life short; judgment difficult, opportunity transient.

—Wilhelm Meister

J. W. von
Goethe

J. W. von Goethe

1749–1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist, and scientist, b. Frankfurt. One of the great masters of world literature, his genius embraced most fields of human endeavor; his art and thought are epitomized in his great dramatic poem Faust. article.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. (See also: Biographical Note from Harvard Classics.)

Pronunciation:

gœ´t

WORKS: Faust. Part I
Goethe’s retelling of the classic Faust legend and the crowning achievement of his literary output. From the Harvard Classics, Vol. XIX, Part 1.; Egmont
Count Egmont leads an ultimately tragic rebellion against Spanish rule in The Netherlands. From the Harvard Classics, Vol. XIX, Part 3.; Hermann and Dorothea
This “novelette in verse” tells the story of a young girl who finds love after fleeing the chaos of the French Revolution. From the Harvard Classics, Vol. XIX, Part 4.; Introduction to the Propyläen
From the Harvard Classics, Vol. XXXIX.; Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship
From the Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction, Vol. XIV.; The Sorrows of Werther
From the Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction, Vol. XV, Part 1.; Bartlett’s Goethe Quotations
Epitomal selections by John Bartlett.; Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 25159 to 25375
Entries from the Columbia World of Quotations.

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