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  • Schiller's Literary Prose Works

    New Translations and Critical Essays

    Friedrich Schiller was a dramatist and poet for the ages, an important aesthetic theorist, and among Germany's first historians. But he left few works of literary prose behind -- seven short tales and fragments, almost all from early in his career -- and although they include some of his most resonant in his own time, they are largely overlooked today. Several of the pieces -- which include The ... Leer más

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  • Carl Wilhelm Froelich’s «On Man and his Circumstances»

    A Translation of «Ueber den Menschen und seine Verhaeltnisse»

    Series Libro 66 - German Life and Civilization
    This book includes both the original German version and, for the first time, an English translation of Carl Wilhelm Frölich’s important essay of 1792, which Georg Foster praised as «one of the rarest creations of our time, the work of a young, right-thinking and sensitive man.» Published anonymously, Frölich’s treatise consists of ten Platonic-like dialogues between Erast and Philemon, the central ... Leer más

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  • Goethe: Life as a Work of Art

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  • Letter to the Father/Brief an den Vater

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  • Goethe

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    In 1878 the Victorian critic Matthew Arnold wrote: 'Goethe is the greatest poet of modern times... because having a very considerable gift for poetry, he was at the same time, in the width, depth, and richness of his criticism of life, by far our greatest modern man.' In this Very Short Introduction Ritchie Robertson covers the life and work of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832): scientist, ... Leer más

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