All 3 Uses of
Goethe
in
A Room of One's Own
- Goethe honoured them; Mussolini despises them.†
Chpt 2 *Goethe = German polymath and writer (1749-1832)
- There were the biographies: Johnson and Goethe and Carlyle and Sterne and Cowper and Shelley and Voltaire and Browning and many others.†
Chpt 5
- And without being Dr Johnson or Goethe or Carlyle or Voltaire, one may feel, though very differently from these great men, the nature of this intricacy and the power of this highly developed creative faculty among women.†
Chpt 5
Definition:
German polymath (one who excels in many fields) best remembered for his writing -- especially the play Faust (1749-1832)