TY - BOOK AU - Goethe,Johann Wolfgang von AU - Frothingham,Ellen TI - Hermann and Dorothea AV - PT PY - 1999/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Epic poetry, German KW - German poetry -- Translations into English KW - Love poetry, German N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_and_Dorothea; Release date is 1999-11-01; Produced by An Anonymous Volunteer, and David Widger; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Hermann and Dorothea" by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is an epic poem written between 1796 and 1797. Set during the French Revolutionary Wars, it tells the story of Hermann, a wealthy innkeeper's son, who falls in love with Dorothea, a refugee fleeing French occupation. Against his father's wishes for a prosperous match, Hermann pursues the compassionate young woman he met while delivering aid to displaced villagers. This idyll in hexameters contrasts the settled life of a small German town with revolutionary turmoil, exploring themes of love, duty, and civilization's foundations. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1958 ER -