This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. The novel is the story of a sensitive, artistic young man who demonstrates the fatal effects of a predilection for absoluteswhether those of love, art, society, or thought. It was the first novel of the Sturm und Drang movement. von Goethe, published in German as Die Leiden des jungen Werthers in 1774. Like the Rousseau of the Confessions, like Chateaubriand’s René, like the Byronic hero, a model was established that is said to have been influential in contributing to a fad of suicides by young people who considered themselves insufficiently understood. The Sorrows of Young Werther, novel by J.W. The artistic hero, his hopeless love, and his suicide appear in the context that touches major Romantic themes: the glorification of children, the emotional impact of contact with nature, the artist’s sense of separation from his society. His Sorrows of Young Werther, portions of which appear below, was published in 1774. Well before the Romantic school took shape at the Schlegels’ behest, Goethe had become a dominant figure in German and European letters, and had contributed to a number of the themes and tendencies that came to be identified with Romanticism, such as a medieval setting, a more sensitively apprehended Hellas, and the need for a national literature. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) helped initiate the Sturm und Drang period of German letters with his play Götz von Berlichingen, and through the 1770’s he promoted the building of a German literature no longer dependent upon the French.
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