The Sorrows of Young Werther (Die Leiden des jungen Werther， originally published as Die Leiden des jungen Werthers) is an epistolary and loosely autobiographical novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe， first published in A major scene prominently features Goethe's own German translation of a portion of James Macpherson's Ossian cycle of poems， which were originally presented as translations of ancient works， and were later found to have been written by M Werther was an important novel of the Sturm und Drang movement in German It was one of Goethe's few works in the movement before he， with Friedrich von Schiller， began the Weimar Classicism It also influenced Romantic literature that
