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There was then among the younger people a fever of enthusiasm similar to that which Werther had caused a century before. Wolf saw Wagner. He tells us about it in his letters to his parents.
It says dear me, Georges! it says that the Duc de Gramont refuses to accept any pledge from the Spanish ambassador unless that old Von Werther the German ambassador, you know guarantees that Prince Leopold von Hohenzollern will never again attempt to mount the Spanish throne!" There was a silence. The old vicomte stirred restlessly and knocked over some more chessmen.
Goethe’s “Der Triumph der Empfindsamkeit” is a merry satire on the sentimental movement, but is not to be connected directly with Sterne, since Goethe is more particularly concerned with the petty imitators of his own “Werther.” Baumgartner in his Life of Goethe asserts that Sterne’s Sentimental Journey was one of the books found inside the ridiculous doll which the love-sick Prince Oronaro took about with him.
Thackeray ridiculed "The Sorrows of Werther," and in the light of matured judgment the tale appears ridiculous; but it strikes home to the heart, because we all learn wisdom through such experiences, of which young Werther's is an extreme instance. It was only another example of the close relation that subsists between comedy and tragedy.
It seems odd that Marshal Blucher's favourite book should have been Klopstock's 'Messiah, and Napoleon Buonaparte's favourites, Ossian's 'Poems' and the 'Sorrows of Werther. But Napoleon's range of reading was very extensive. It included Homer, Virgil, Tasso; novels of all countries; histories of all times; mathematics, legislation, and theology.
Perhaps this is an excuse for the shallowness of some of the product, especially of the fiction; at any rate, the attempt at dissemination was not without its success. Brentano's grandmother, Sophie La Roche, had been the friend of Wieland; his mother, Maximiliane, played a not unimportant rôle in the life of the young Goethe and is immortalized in the latter part of Werther.
"And there is Knebel too," shouted the duke to the gentleman who just then pulled the wet hood of his cloak over his powdered hair. "Our treasurer Bertuch, Count Werther, and Baron von Einsiedel also." "Does not your highness ask after our bewitching countess?" asked Goechhausen, in her fine, sharp voice. "The countess is quite ill is she not, Count Werther?"
Suicide is not a national habit in Germany as it is in England." "But that poor creature, Werther, who committed suicide, was a German." "Werther is a fictitious character, and by no means a felicitous one; I am no admirer either of Werther or his author. But I should say that, if there was a Werther in Germany, he did not smoke. Werther, as you very justly observe, was a poor creature."
If you read his Songs, his Werther, his Wahlverwandtschaften, you feel that extraordinary intimacy I had almost said identification with nature, present everywhere. Werther's love springs up with the blossom of all nature; he begins to sink and nears his self-made tomb while autumn, the death of nature, is in the fields and woods.
Thy voice woos me, exclaiming, I refresh thee with heavenly dews; but the time of my decay is approaching, the storm is nigh that shall whither my leaves. Tomorrow the traveller shall come, he shall come, who beheld me in beauty: his eye shall seek me in the field around, but he shall not find me." The whole force of these words fell upon the unfortunate Werther.
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