Hermann and Dorothea is an epic poem, an idyll, written by German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe between 1796 and 1797, and was to some extent suggested by Johann Heinrich Voss's Luise, an idyll in hexameters, which was first published in 1782-84. Goethe's work is set around 1792 at the beginning of the French Revolutionary Wars, when French forces under General Custine invaded and briefly occupied parts of the Palatinate. The hexameters of the nine cantos are at times irregular.
- ISBN10 1151687103
- ISBN13 9781151687104
- Publish Date 27 December 2009 (first published 1 December 1966)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 24 November 2016
- Publish Country US
- Imprint General Books
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Language English