Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Wikipedia article on Goethe

the-sorrows-of-young-werther.com A website that will email Werther's letters to your inbox.

Project Gutenberg edition of The Sorrows of Young Werther The text of the novel in the Carlyle/Boylan translation.

Jame's MacPherson's "Ossian" 1796 Edition of the Poems of Ossian

Catullus poem 2 One of Catullus' infamous bird poems.

Catullus poem 3 Another of Catullus' bird poems.

Dictionary of Sensibility An excellent project started by the University of Virginia English Department that documents the rise of sentimental literature in the eighteenth century. Contains some examples from Werther.

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