Ossian
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Ossian is the narrator and purported author of a cycle of epic poems published by the Scottish poet James Macpherson, originally as Fingal and Temora, and later combined under the title The Poems of O
Ossian Singing, Nicolai Abildgaard, 1787
Ossian and Malvina, by Johann Peter Krafft, 1810.
Portrait of James Macpherson by George Romney, 1780
Ossian Evoking ghosts on the Edge of the Lora, by François Pascal Simon Gérard, 1801
The Sorrows of Young Werther
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The Sorrows of Young Werther, or simply Werther, is a 1774 epistolary novel by Johann Wolfgang Goethe, which appeared as a revised edition in 1787. It was one of the main novels in the Sturm und Drang
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…proto-nationalist poets Klopstock and Goethe, whose own German translation of a portion of Macpherson's work figures prominently in a climactic scene of The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774). Goethe's associate Johann Gottfried Herder wrote an essay titled Extract from a correspondence about Ossian and the Songs of Ancient Peoples…
First print 1774
Charlotte at Werther's grave. This scene is not in the novel.
Goethe portrait in profile
Colored engraving of Werther and Lotte