"Which German writer, one of the key figures of the movement of Weimar Classicism in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, produced the two-part drama ""Faust"", numerous poems and the novel ""The Sorrows of Young Werther""?"
The Sorrows of Young Werther the memory of a Werther from which Goethe had distanced himself in the meantime, as he had from the "Sturm und Drang". This argument was continued in his collection of short and critical poems, the "Xenien", and his play "Faust." The Sorrows of Young Werther The Sorrows of Young Werther () is a loosely autobiographical epistolary novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, first published in 1774. A revised edition followed in 1787. It was one of the most important novels in the "Sturm und Drang" period in German literature, and influenced the later Romantic movement. Goethe, aged 24 at the
The Sorrows of Young Werther personal visit to Weimar became a crucial stage in any young man's Grand Tour of Europe. Most of "The Sorrows of Young Werther" is presented as a collection of letters written by Werther, a young artist of a sensitive and passionate temperament, to his friend Wilhelm. These give an intimate account of his stay in the fictional village of Wahlheim (based on Garbenheim, near Wetzlar), whose peasants have enchanted him with their simple ways. There he meets Charlotte, a beautiful young girl who takes care of her siblings after the death of their mother. Werther falls in love with Charlotte