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The Sorrows of Young Werther
Werther
also: Werther, Die Leiden des jungen Werthers
Goethe's 1774 epistolary novel of doomed romantic passion, a byword for youthful love and melancholy; here it is taken from the girl by her governess.
Reading notes
- Early Poems §124 Werther
Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774), the era's great novel of romantic passion and suicide; the governess takes it from the girl's hands.