Wikipedia:Peer review/The Sorrows of Young Werther/archive1

The Sorrows of Young Werther
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 * Infobox
 * Plot Review
 * Other sections needed (Characters perhaps?)
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Millancad 19:01, 12 March 2007 (UTC)


 * (Update) If anyone who knows German could see what could be added from the German article, that'd be great.

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Review by Awadewit

 * Could you find a cover that is at least closer to the time and place of original publication? I'm not a stickler for first editions but that picture is silly. The page is supposed to be about Goethe's book after all. Let's try to put it in historical context, please.
 * Also, the novel was not published in Germany. Germany did not exist as a nation until at least the middle of the nineteenth century. You might check where Goethe originally had it published.
 * Do you have a reference for the climactic scene being the poems? I would tend to think that the climactic scene would be the suicide. Statements like that tend to be a matter of personal interpretation. Be careful with them.
 * The lead should be a three-paragraph (or so) summary of the article. WP:LEAD
 * leaves after a great embarassment - mention what it is
 * You need to have scholarly sources for your material, such as the claims that the book is partly autobigraphical and had a wide cutural impact. See WP:CITE
 * The cultural impact section could be greatly expanded. This book had a dramatic impact on writers at the end of the eighteenth century. "Everyone" read it, as they say. It influenced Romanticism in England and Sturm and Drang in the german states. That should all be there. Also, I would suggest that you have a section explaining what literary scholars have written about the book.
 * You might consider a small section on Goethe.Awadewit 12:44, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Review by BirgitteSB
Honestly this is not ready for peer review but I wanted to point you at Google Books which will have a wealth of full view critical resources for a book of the age. This article needs LOTS of work, but follow what the sources have to say most often and it should be easy to see what points are important to get across. Also you need to get a free content image for the info box. There should be many public domain possibilities This is almost certainly PD.-- Birgitte SB  21:16, 15 March 2007 (UTC)