This author wrote about a time when he was "unbound, yet prison'd, fast" by the magic of being in love with a woman who "keeps the strangest creatures...
This author wrote about a time when he was "unbound, yet prison'd, fast" by the magic of being in love with a woman who "keeps the strangest creatures... she knows not how" in one poem.  He wrote that "without Love, / the world isn't the world" and wondered "Who'll whisper to me, at what window / Will I see the sweet thing who'll kindle me now" in the first of a series of poems beginning with a command to "Tell me you stones, O speak, you towering places!"  This poet of "Lily's Menagerie" described "the Poet's sarcophagus" adorned with a book written about the "beauty of life" in another poem.  He asked "Do you know the clouded mountain mass" and "Do you know the land where the lemon-trees grow" in a poem named after Mignon. This author of the collections Roman Elegies and Venetian Epigrams  also wrote some plays like Gotz von Berlichingen. FTP, name this poet who wrote a scene in which a poem about Ossian is recited to Charlotte by Werther.
This author wrote about a time when he was "unbound, yet prison'd, fast" by the magic of being in love with a woman who "keeps the strangest creatures...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe