Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"Johann Wolfgang von Goethe" was a German writer and politician/statesman. His body of work includes epic poetry/epic and lyric poetry written in a variety of poetic metre/metres and styles; prose and verse (poetry)/verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary criticism/literary and Aesthetics/aesthetic criticism; treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour; and four novels. In addition, numerous literary and scientific fragments, more than 10,000 letters, and nearly 3,000 drawings by him are extant.

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