PagineGermany’s greatest writer, Goethe wrote poetry, novels, plays and scientific studies. His verse drama Faust, about a scholar who bargains with the devil for knowledge, took him most of his life, and his ballad “The Erl-King” inspired Schubert’s famous song.
Free in the library:
Yes. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s poems are in the public domain. Full books are also free in the library.
Faust (1808, 1832), The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774), West–Eastern Divan (1819).