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Erotica Romana or Roman Elegies is a literary accolade to human desire and sexual arousal. Composed in 24 elegies to pattern after the classical Roman elegy authors including Tibullus, Propertius, and Catullus, the writer makes a lyrical masterpiece that has frequently been an issue towards suppression. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German author and lawmaker. His books contain epic and lyric poetry; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; expositions on botany, anatomy, and colour; and four novels. In addendum, a number of literary and scientific sections, in excess of 10,000 letters, and approximately 3,000 illustrations by him remain. A literary luminary at 25 years old, Johann was exalted by the Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Carl Augustin 1782 after starting domicile there henceforth the achievement of his first story, The Sorrows of Young Werther. He was among the first partakers in the Sturm und Drang literary movement. In his first ten years in Weimar, he became associated with the Duke’s privy council, rendered service on the war and highway commissions, directed the restoration of silver fields near Ilmenau, and effected a sequence of administrative restructures at the University of Jena. He also funded to the formation of Weimar’s botanical park and the reconstruction of its Ducal Palace, which in 1998 were collectively specified a UNESCO World Heritage Site. His first most important scientific oeuvre, the Metamorphosis of Plants, was issued after coming back from a 1788 travel to Italy. He afterwards became the managing director of the dramaturgy at Weimar, and then started an amity with the playwright, historian, and philosopher Friedrich Schiller, whose theatricals he originally produced until Friedrich died. At this stage, Johann wrote his second novel, Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, the epic poetry Hermann and Dorothea, and, the first portion of his highly rejoiced play, Faust.
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