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Ganymede

Ganymede ("Ganymed", poem composed 1774; published in Goethe's Schriften, 1789)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) · "Ganymed", poem composed 1774; published in Goethe's Schriften, 1789

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“Menzel's View of Goethe” · Vol. 1, No. 3, January 1841

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“And when we see the same propensity writing itself into Ganymede, Mahomet's song, the Bayadere, and Faust, telling all Goethe's religion in Mignon and Makana, all his wisdom in the Western-Eastern Divan, we respect it, accept, all but love it.”

Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860. · p17