How would you like to be a well-established writer by age 25? How about meet Napoleon? Inspire art and music in the centuries to come? Well, this week's topic accomplished all that and more. His prolific literary output brewed up a storm of artistic expression that spanned the continent of Europe. We cannot stress enough how delighted we are to discuss with you some sublime works connected to none other than Johann Wolfgang von Goethe!

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Art:

Claude-Joseph Vernet (1714-1789): The Shipwreck (1772)

Henry Fuseli (1741-1825): The Nightmare (1781)

Philip James de Loutherbourg (1740-1812): Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 8 August 1588 (1796)

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Music:

Franz Schubert (1797-1828): Erlkönig (1815)

Franz Schubert: Gretchen am Spinnrade (1814)

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911): Symphony No. 8 (1906)