The Sorrows of Young Werther
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| The Sorrows of Young Werther (Die Leiden des jungen Werther) is an epistolary and loosely autobiographical novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, first published in 1774. A major scene prominently features Goethe's own German translation of a portion of James Macpherson's Ossian cycle of poems, which were originally presented as translations of ancient works, and were later found to have been written by Macpherson.
Werther was an important novel of the Sturm und Drang movement in German literature. It was one of Goethe's few works in the movement before he, with Friedrich von Schiller, began the Weimar Classicism movement. It also influenced Romantic literature that followed. — Excerpted from The Sorrows of Young Werther on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This version is translated by R. Dillon Boylan for Project Gutenberg. It is released on February 1st, 2001 and is not copyrighted in the United States. |
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