The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri · Medieval · Epic, allegory
Romantic · Drama, poetry
Faust, Parts One and Two
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. A scholar bargains with Mephistopheles in a vast drama of desire, guilt, modernity, creation, and redemption.
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- Date
- 1808 / 1832
- Origin
- Germany
- Era
- Romantic
- Genre
- Drama, poetry
- Canon tier
- Essential core
- Difficulty
- Challenging
- Length
- Long
- Collection
- The Western Canon
Subjects and themes
Why it matters
A scholar bargains with Mephistopheles in a vast drama of desire, guilt, modernity, creation, and redemption.
This work is included on the basis of great books / bloom. Its cataloged influence level is 5 out of 5.
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