In one poem, this author says that the four things he hates more than snakes and poison are: "tobacco smoke, bedbugs, garlic, and Christ".
In one poem, this author says that the four things he hates more than snakes and poison are: "tobacco smoke, bedbugs, garlic, and Christ". He declared that "without Love, / the world's not the world" in a poem that opens "Tell me you stones, O speak, you towering palaces!". Both of those poems are from collections this author wrote during a 1786-1788 journey to Italy. A poem beginning "Knowest thou the land where the (*) lemon trees bloom, / Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom" is recited in one of his novels. This author of the Venetian Epigrams and Roman Elegies wrote a poem that opens: "Who rides, so late, through the night and wind?" in which a father carries a sick child on horseback, and the child sees visions of the title elf, who takes him. For 10 points, name this German Romantic author of "Erlkönig" and Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship.
In one poem, this author says that the four things he hates more than snakes and poison are: "tobacco smoke, bedbugs, garlic, and Christ".
Johann Wolfgang von {Goethe}