This author wrote a cycle of twenty-four sensual poems originally titled Erotica, that were inspired by the classical art he saw during his travels from 1786-88.
In an amusing poem, this author wrote that "Many sounds annoy me, but still the one I hate most / Is the barking of dogs: and their ear-splitting yelps." This poet listed "goat-footed creatures puffing their cheeks" and "Fauns dancing with girls from a Bacchanalian choir" in a poem declaring that "So may the Poet's sarcophagus be adorned, / With this book the writer has filled with the beauty of life." In a poem whose speaker commands: "Tell me you (*) stones, O speak, you towering palaces! / Streets, say a word," this author declared that "without Love, / the world isn't the world, and Rome can't be Rome." This author wrote a cycle of twenty-four sensual poems originally titled Erotica, that were inspired by the classical art he saw during his travels from 1786-88. For 10 points, name this German poet who wrote the "Venetian Epigrams" and the "Roman Elegies" during his pilgrimages to Italy, financed by the hefty proceeds from his novel The Sorrows of Young Werther.
In an amusing poem, this author wrote that "Many sounds annoy me, but still the one I hate most /
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe