About “Hermann and Dorothea”
Hermann and Dorothea is an epic poem and idyll written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe between 1796 and 1797. It was influenced by Johann Heinrich Voss's Luise, an idyll in hexameters published earlier. The poem is set around 1792 during the French Revolutionary Wars, when French forces under General Custine invaded the Palatinate. The work is divided into nine cantos written in hexameters, though the meter is sometimes irregular. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)
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- 1797