Read Goethe's 'Sorrows Of Young Werther'

Really enjoyed reading Goethe's 'Sorrows Of Young Werther'. It's easy to see why it was so influential in its time with its passion and tragic inevitability of the death through love of its hero Werther. While it's an easy introduction to the high German Classicism of Goethe, the novel brilliantly displays the main tenets of the Empfindsamkeit or sensibility and Sturm und Drang movement in central European art during the seventienth and eighteenth centuries.
I felt sympathy for Werther as a moth caught in the flame, a real character trapped by his own sensitivity.

LINKS:
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/goethe.htm
http://www.poetrymagic.co.uk/poets/goethe.html