This man wrote the erotic Roman Elegies as well as a play where the Duke of Alba fights against the title figure in his Egmont.
This man wrote the erotic Roman Elegies as well as a play where the Duke of Alba fights against the title figure in his Egmont. He also wrote a poem in which a child's cries of the title figure are dismissed as wind and fog, Der Erlkönig, while in another of his plays, a poodle follows a man home who has the son Euphorion with (*) Helen. After Albert weds Lotte, the title character of his first novel commits suicide, an event which inspired multiple copycat suicides in Germany. The most famous work of this author of The Sorrows of Young Werther sees a scientist make a deal with Mephistopheles the devil. For 10 points, name this German romanticist polymath and author of Faust.
This man wrote the erotic Roman Elegies as well as a play where the Duke of Alba fights against the title figure in his Egmont.
Johann Wolfgang von {Goethe}