Antología poética

Goethe plays the same role in German literature as Shakespeare in English or Cervantes in Spanish: he is a forerunner, a center, and an uninterrupted source of inspiration for the new generations. But as also happens with Shakespeare and Cervantes, Goethe is more than a writer for Germans, the excellence of his style travels well to Castilian, and his works offer the reader of any country in the world an original and deep inquiry into human nature , and its vital development.