Whilst normally requested to jot down poems arousing nationalist passions, Goethe would constantly decline. In aged age, he described why this was so to Eckermann:Probably the single most influential piece is "Mignon's Music" which opens with one of the most renowned strains in German poetry, an allusion to Italy: "Kennst du das Land, wo die Zitron

(1787; “Companions in Guilt”), a verse comedy displaying a woman’s regrets after a yr of marriage to the incorrect guy. His emotional state became busy, and his health and fitness gave way—he could possibly have endured an attack of tuberculosis—and in September 1768 he returned house to Frankfurt with no diploma. An additional bout of il