WE have seen in a former paper the care with which Goethe has pointed out the way to discover the answer to the question, What is Faust ? In his letters he returns to the subject again and again, ...

Speaking of what Faust is, “ I have,” says Goethe, “ received into my mind impressions, and those of a sensual, animated, charming, varied, hundred-fold kind, just as a lively imagination presented ...

Goethe: His Faustian Life; By A.N. Wilson; Bloomsbury; 416 pp., $35.00 Yet, as theologian Natalie K. Watson recently put it in the Church Times, a British publication, Goethe is likely to be “the ...

A poet of the times in which Goethe tackled the retelling of Faust's legend, one that has been shared over fire rings and around hearths since medieval times, Coleridge wrestled with the story's ...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is usually remembered as a towering figure of European culture: poet, playwright, scientist, and all-around genius of the Enlightenment. His drama Faust opens with a scene ...

to lead them back to God from great Kultur? Could he have on Reb Nahman as his Faust relied, to find for his well-published past a cure, as in Leipzig for his future Werther, loving Gretchen, Schocken ...