He wrote a poem in which a child is killed by the title creature while clasped in his father's arms.
In an epic poem by this author, an innkeeper's son falls in love with a girl who helps a woman in childbirth while fleeing an occupied village. He wrote a poem whose first line is "Only he who knows longing," which is one of the songs sung by Mignon in a novel by this author. He wrote a poem in which a child is killed by the title creature while clasped in his father's arms. In another of his poems, the title character enchants a broom to do his work for him. This author of Hermann und Dorothea wrote an epistolary novel whose title characters reads Ossian to his beloved Lotte and commits suicide using pistols given to him by his friend Albert. For 10 points, name this author of "The Erl-King" and "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," as well as The Sorrows of Young Werther.
In an epic poem by this author, an innkeeper's son falls in love with a girl who helps a woman in childbirth while fleeing an occupied village.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe