In addition to the epic "Hermann and Dorothea," he wrote the collections (*) Roman Elegies and The West-Eastern Divan, and the Paul Dukas-inspiring "Sorcerer's Apprentice.
When he couldn't get a nineteen-year-old girl to marry him, this elderly writer complained that the immortals had deserted and hurled him to the ground in his "Marienbad Elegy," and he wrote a longer poem based on the expulsion of Protestants from Salzburg. That poem, which he probably ripped off from "Louise" by Johann Heinrich Voss, used hexameter to tell the story of a girl who falls in love after escaping the French Revolution. In addition to the epic "Hermann and Dorothea," he wrote the collections (*) Roman Elegies and The West-Eastern Divan, and the Paul Dukas-inspiring "Sorcerer's Apprentice." One of his novels is composed of the main character's letters to Wilhelm, describing time spent in the village of Wahlheim and a rivalry with the sensible Albert. For 10 points, name this author whose protagonist commits suicide after a rejection by Lotte in The Sorrows of Young Werther.
When he couldn't get a nineteen-year-old girl to marry him, this elderly writer complained that the immortals had deserted and hurled him to the ground in his "Marienbad Elegy," and he wrote a longer poem based on the expulsion of Protestants from Salzburg.
Johann Wolfgang von {Goethe}