The Sorrows of Werter (Classic Reprint)

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At Leipsic Goethe, who was singularly handsome, studied and idled, dreamed, had his ideal raised, and burnt his boyish poems; fell in love again, had his love returned, became fantastic, teased the damsel with distrust, lost her, and turned his experiences into verse - Die Laune des Verliebten. Like others in his day, he took a dark view of the world, planned gloomy plays, and wrote one, Die Mitschuldigen (the Com panions in Guilt). He studied art and made a secret trip to Dresden to see pictures. He learnt to engrave. He had been seized with haemorrhage when he went home again from Leipsic to Frankfort in September, 1768, the year before the publication, at Leipsic, of twenty songs of his which had been set to music by a Leipsic bookseller. At home there were months of illness; there was conflict with a dissatisfied father, against whom he found his sister Cornelia rebelling.

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