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  1. Experience the passion and intensity of love and loss with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's masterpiece, 'The Sorrows of Young Werther.' Follow the tragic story ...

  2. The Sorrows of Young Werther, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Translated by R. Dillon Boylan.The Sorrows of Young Werther (German, Die Leiden des jungen Werth...

  3. The third, and final, video of The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe explores Werther as an artist in relation to his actions, and how the artist Werther cr...

  4. Sep 25, 2024 · Young men of fashion would parade in Werther’s trademark yellow waistcoat, blue jacket and high boots – the very outfit worn by Goethe’s friend Karl Wilhelm Jerusalem, whose 1772 suicide ...

    • Emotion, Art, and The Self in The Sorrows of Young Werther
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    In the brief introduction to The Sorrows of Young Werther(1774), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe writes directly to the readers about the emotional journey that they are about to undertake, stating that “You cannot deny your admiration and love for [Werther’s] spirit and character, nor your tears at his fate.” It is clear from the pages that follow that...

    Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. The Sorrows of Young Werther. London: Penguin Classics, 1989. © 2018 Veronica McDonald

    Veronica McDonald (author)from Alabama on January 19, 2019: Thank you I am that I amon January 18, 2019: Beautiful dissertation

  5. Key Facts about The Sorrows of Young Werther. Full Title:The Sorrows of Young Werther. When Written: 1774. Where Written: Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany. When Published: 1774. Literary Period: Sturm und Drang (Storm and Stress) Genre: Epistolary Novel, Confessional Literature, Autobiographical Novel, Bildungsroman.

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  7. When Goethe completed Werther, he likened his mood to one experienced “after a general confession, joyous and free and entitled to a new life”. For Goethe the Werther effect was a cathartic one, freeing himself from the despair in his life. [3] The book reputedly also led to some of the first known examples of copycat suicide. The men were ...