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Genre:
"Prose Fiction"
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Nationality of Author:
"German"
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Work title:
"Die Leiden des jungen Werther [The Sorrows of Young Werther]"
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Literary Period:
"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Metaphor Category:
"Light"
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"Optics"
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Date: 1774, rev. 1787, 1779 in English
"What is the whole world to our hearts without love? It is the optic machine of the Savoyards without light." [More literal translation: "Wilhelm, what would the world mean to our hearts without love! What is a magic lantern without its lamp!"]
preview | full record— Goethe, Johann Wolfgang (1749-1832)