This author wrote about a time when he was "unbound, yet prison'd, fast" by the magic of being in love with a woman who "keeps the strangest creatures... she knows not how" in one poem.  He wrote that "without Love, / the world isn't the world" and wondered "Who'll whisper to me, at what window / Will I see the sweet thing who'll kindle me now" in the first of a series of poems beginning with a command to "Tell me you stones, O speak, you towering places!"  This poet of "Lily's Menagerie" described "the Poet's sarcophagus" adorned with a book written about the "beauty of life" in another poem.  He asked "Do you know the clouded mountain mass" and "Do you know the land where the lemon-trees grow" in a poem named after Mignon. This author of the collections Roman Elegies and Venetian Epigrams  also wrote some plays like Gotz von Berlichingen. FTP, name this poet wh
This author wrote about a time when he was "unbound, yet prison'd, fast" by the magic of being in love with a woman who "keeps the strangest creatures... she knows not how" in one poem.  He wrote that "without Love, / the world isn't the world" and wondered "Who'll whisper to me, at what window / Will I see the sweet thing who'll kindle me now" in the first of a series of poems beginning with a command to "Tell me you stones, O speak, you towering places!"  This poet of "Lily's Menagerie" described "the Poet's sarcophagus" adorned with a book written about the "beauty of life" in another poem.  He asked "Do you know the clouded mountain mass" and "Do you know the land where the lemon-trees grow" in a poem named after Mignon. This author of the collections Roman Elegies and Venetian Epigrams  also wrote some plays like Gotz von Berlichingen. FTP, name this poet who wrote a scene in which a poem about Ossian is recited to Charlotte by Werther.
This author wrote about a time when he was "unbound, yet prison'd, fast" by the magic of being in love with a woman who "keeps the strangest creatures...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe