Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer and according to George Eliot, "Germany"s greatest man of letters… and the last true polymath to walk the earth." Goethe"s works span the fields of poetry, drama, literature, theology, humanism and science. Goethe"s magnum opus, lauded as one of the peaks of world literature, is the two-part drama Faust. Goethe"s other well-known literary works include his numerous poems, the Bildungsroman Wilhelm Meister"s Apprenticeship and the epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther.