The sorrows of Werther

Introduction

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) became a leading figure in European culture, a living monument to that of many other writers and intellectuals went on pilgrimage. Author of literary masterpieces such as the drama of Faust (1803 and 1832), the Roman Elegies (1795), and novels Elective Affinities (1809) and apprenticeship of Wilhelm Meister (1795), Goethe was also a scholar who has produced an influential theory of colors in response to Newton and doing important work in the fields of geology, botany and anatomy, an able statesman and administrator of the court of Weimar, and theorist and art collector. ...