Goethe's early poetry
Weimar and Charlotte von Stein
(1775-1786) Charlotte von Stein ( = ‘Lida')
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'Wandrers Nachtlied I’ (1776) ‘Harzreise im Winter’ (1777) 'An den Mond’, 1. Fassung (1778)
‘Grenzen der Menschheit’ (1781) |
November 1775-1786: Goethe moves to Weimar 1775 (November): meets Charlotte von Stein
1777: death of Goethe’s sister Cornelia 1779-80: Travels to Switzerland with the Herzog. On the return journey visits Lili von Türkheim (née Schönemann) and Friederike Brion (in Sesenheim) 1782: death of Goethe’s father 1782: Goethe enobled |