"Sorrows of Werther" is a
satirical
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poem by
William Makepeace Thackeray written in response to the enormous success of
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's
novel
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''
The Sorrows of Young Werther''.
English poems
Works based on The Sorrows of Young Werther
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