Goethean

American  

[gur-tee-uhn] / ˈgɜr ti ən /

adjective

1. relating to or characteristic of the writing, ideas, or style of Goethe.

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Example Sentences

The ideal was a Goethean panorama in which sublimity and scientific curiosity were inextricably mingled.

From Time Magazine Archive

This War, his most recent pamphlet, is a masterful piece of classical rhetoric, tinged, like much of his work, with Goethean pompousness.

From Time Magazine Archive

I know you're surrounded with the din of battle, and yet the beauty you produce has the Goethean calm, even like the beauty distilled at Weimar when the smoke was over Jena.

From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by James, Henry

Like a literary connoisseur who rolls a Horatian ode or a Goethean lyric upon his tongue—even thus he enjoyed these sombre stanzas.

From The Indian Lily and Other Stories by Lewisohn, Ludwig

Possibly, indeed, this is the fault of those who have reported him, and who only took notes when the discourse turned on what they considered the proper Goethean themes.

From The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays by Masson, David