For 10 points, name this German poet who wrote Faust.
This author wrote that, "without Love, the world isn't the world, and Rome can't be Rome" in an elegy whose speaker pleads, "Streets, say a word!" Hafiz influenced him to write the West- Eastern Divan. In a classic line, this author's began one poem, "Do you know the land where the lemon trees blossom?" One of this author's best-known poems opens by asking, "Who rides so late through the night and wind?" This author described a father who fails to prevent the death of his son on horseback at the hands of the title Elf-King. He also wrote a verse drama in two parts in which the title character is followed by a poodle that turns out to be Mephistopheles. For 10 points, name this German poet who wrote Faust.
This author wrote that, "without Love, the world isn't the world, and Rome can't be Rome" in an elegy whose speaker pleads, "Streets, say a word!"
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe