by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Although the defiant hymn "Prometheus" germinated earlier within Goethe's Sturm und Drang period, its powerful verses, giving voice to the Titan's rebellion against Zeus's dominion, were first published in 1785 within Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi's treatise Über die Lehre des Spinoza, igniting a fierce literary-philosophical debate by appearing without Goethe's consent. The poem's raw, accusatory tone—"Bedecke deinen Himmel, Zeus, / Mit Wolkendunst!" (Cover your heaven, Zeus, / With misty vapors!)—
ISBN: 9798394075193
79 pages
Published: 2023-05-27
Publisher: Independently published