This author introduced the maxim "the spirits that I called" as an expression for using powers you can't control, and hewrote the play that popularized the saying "kiss my ass," which became so famous that it was dubbed the Swabian salute.
This author introduced the maxim "the spirits that I called" as an expression for using powers you can't control, and hewrote the play that popularized the saying "kiss my ass," which became so famous that it was dubbed the Swabian salute. Thisauthor's best-known play begins with a character struggling to translate the word "logos" from the Gospel of John, and thatplay gave rise to an expression meaning the gist of the matter that literally translates as "the core of the poodle." In another playby him, the aesthetic credo "heavenly joy, deadly sorrow" appears in a ballad sung by the title count's evil mistress Klarchen.This author of Gotz von Berlichingen Â¨ and Egmont wrote a play that ends when the Mater Gloriosa descends from heaven tosave the soul of the man who tried to rescue Gretchen from jail aftfter she was imprisoned for drowning her child. For 10 points, name this German dramatist who wrote about Mephistopheles tempting the title scholar in Faust.
This author introduced the maxim "the spirits that I called" as an expression for using powers you can't control, and hewrote the play that popularized the saying "kiss my ass," which became so famous that it was dubbed the Swabian salute.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe