A should be of interest to anyone who has an interest in literature, as he is easily one of the most important literary figures of the last five hundred years, and is in fact lauded by many as being only behind figures like Shakespeare and Chaucer in his overall importance to the literary field. He was a German writer, and was alive from 1879-1832, and is most famous for his work, Faust. It is important to note when considering that, although Faust remains his most influential and most important work, he was a prolific writer in many genres, and many of his other works, especially his poetry, are also extremely important parts of the German literary Cannon.
