As a writer, Goethe “was endowed with the most prodigious linguistic and imaginative gift … [he] was writing things which are as burningly alive today as when he wrote them.” What caused Goethe’s near ...

I CONFESS I owe a great deal to Hegel, Goethe, Mirza Ghalib, Mirza Abdul Qadir Bedil and Wordsworth. The first ...

But are our writing skills getting worse at the same time? Best-selling author Thomas Ramge told Goethe-Institut there are pluses and minuses to this field of technological advancement. German ...

In fact Payam-i-Mashriq, a collection of Iqbal’s Persian poetry, was inspired — as acknowledged by Iqbal himself in his preface to the book — by Goethe’s West-Ostlicher Divan, or West ...