Goethe Intersections of Poetry and Science

Dr. Bryan Klausmeyer, Assistant Professor of German at Virginia Tech, gave an engaging presentation to the German Romanticism class. They explored the intersections of poetry and science in the work of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, an important figure in the class. Students contemplated how poetic devices may help us examine the relationship between humans and nature. Dr. Klausmeyer has published several texts on Goethe and is an editor of the Goethe-Lexicon of Philosophical Concepts.