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A similar phenomenon, though not under the same name, occurred during the German Sturm und Drang movement, with such works as The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe or in Romanticism with works such as Ode on Melancholy by John Keats.

In the 20th century, much of the counterculture of modernism was fueled by comparable alienation and a sense of purposelessness called " anomie "; earlier artistic preoccupation with death has gone under the rubric of memento mori.