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This author's obsession with "maternal darkness" is discussed in Paglia's Sexual Personae, whose section "Amazons, Mothers, Ghosts" explores "[this author] to Gothic." This author created a character who marries the Amazon Natalia and encounters the tomboy Mignon and Lothario's Society of the Tower after joining an acting troupe. Literature's most famous invitation to ass-licking is delivered by the title figure of this man's drama about a mercenary in the Peasants' War who sports an iron hand. This author of Gotz von Berlichingen and the travelogue Italian Journey is better known for a character who is buried under a linden tree after meeting with Fraulein von B and reciting Ossian to his beloved, whose marriage to Albert is recounted in a series of letters culminating in a suicide. For 10 points, name this German author of Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and The Sorrows of Young Werther.
This author's obsession with "maternal darkness" is discussed in Paglia's Sexual Personae, whose section "Amazons, Mothers, Ghosts" explores "[this author] to Gothic.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe