| A seminal figure in German literature, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe also served as the foremost representative of the German romantic movement. Goethe wrote poems, plays, and novels from the late 1700s to the early 1800s. Goethe’s masterpiece, the poetic drama Faust (first part, 1808; second, 1832), ranks as the preeminent version of the famous Faust legend, in which a character sells his immortal soul to the devil in return for knowledge and experience. An actor recites this excerpt from Goethe’s poem “Wanderer’s Nightsong.” |
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