What literary genre does Goethe belong to?

Romanticism:

One of the basic creative methods of literature and art, in the history of literature and art, it is good at expressing its passionate pursuit of the ideal world, and often uses passionate language, magnificent and magical imagination and exaggerated methods to shape its image. Literary and artistic creation in all countries has this feature from beginning to end. For example, in China literature, Qu Yuan and Li Bai's poems and songs, and Wu Cheng'en's novel The Journey to the West all have distinct romantic features. Romanticism, as a literary trend of thought, came into being in the European bourgeois revolution at the end of1the end of the 8th century1the beginning of the 9th century, reflecting the ideology of the emerging bourgeoisie. Its representative writers are Goethe and Schiller in Germany. French Hugo, George Sha, British Shelley and Byron, etc.