Johann Wolfgang von Goethe failed to publish Hermann and Dorothea.
 During this period Goethe published his second novel, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship; the verse epic Hermann and Dorothea, and, in 1808, the first part of his most celebrated drama, Faust
 Entitled Gtz von Berlichingen, the work went directly to the heart of Goethe's contemporaries

