I was aware of Weimar Classicism and of Goethe's association with sturm und drang. Perhaps it is that I and possibly others see sturm und drang as more associated with early romanticism than classicism, which, on a European scale, was mostly an 18 century movement. But then I found Jacques Barzun's Classic, Romantic and Modern annoying at 21.

"It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."

Yes, by Faust and his later works, Goethe had gone through his personal Thermidor, and the German Romantics were having none of it.  As for Barzun, I'm too old to find him annoying, merely pretentious.  If I were to live that long and accomplish nothing but to shovel such dookie, I would hope someone would have the grace to hit me in the head with a brick.