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 ...

There have been very few Renaissance men since the Renaissance—and they weren’t exactly thick on the ground even in their glory days. No modern figure is more worthy of that appellation than Johann ...

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, ...

IN reading Grimm’s Life and Times of Goethe 1 we have wondered anew at that defect of the great man’s nature which renders him, to us, an almost incomprehensible, half-human being, — we mean the ...

The biographer and historian worships at the altar of the German writer and his magnum opus in an ambitious book that ties itself in knots In his 20s, AN Wilson was briefly a candidate for the ...

Editor’s note: This is the second installment of a four-part Aspen Journalism series on Dr. Albert Schweitzer’s visit to Aspen, where he gave the keynote address at the Goethe Bicentennial of 1949 and ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was and is a cultural colossus, a figure to rank alongside Dante and Shakespeare.