TY  - BOOK
AU  - Goethe,Johann Wolfgang von
AU  - Schiller,Friedrich
AU  - Carus,Paul
TI  - Goethe and Schiller's Xenions
AV  - PT 
PY  - 2025///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - German literature -- 18th century -- Translations into English
N1  - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenien; Release date is 2025-08-17; Markus Brenner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.); Originally published; Chicago, IL: The Open Court Publishing Co., 1915
N2  - "Goethe and Schiller''s Xenions by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller" is a collection of satirical epigrams written in the late 18th century. Cast in classical elegiac distichs, the work blends literary polemic with philosophical reflection, targeting critics and cultural trends while defending a higher ideal of art and thought. The likely topic is a sharp, witty defense of reason, taste, and moral seriousness against philistinism, sentimentality, and shallow rationalism, framed as brief, pointed couplets.  The book begins with an account of the Xenions’ origin and their classical form, then presents the poems in themed groups. “Introductory” declares the poets’ purpose; “Soul and World” distills ideas on reason, nature, fate, and immortality; “Critical and Literary” assails dull reviewers and hollow trends; “Satirical and Personal” lampoons named figures like Nicolai and the Stolbergs; “The Philosophers in Hades” stages a brisk underworld colloquy with Descartes, Spinoza, Berkeley, Leibniz, Kant, Hume, Fichte, and others; “Philosophical Problems” weighs empiricism, system-building, teleology, and duty; “Science and Art” contrasts genius and imitation, poetry and natural science, and celebrates bold discovery through the figure of Columbus; and “Wisdom, Morality and Religion” offers compact maxims on virtue, truth versus error, ritual, mysticism, and the unity behind change. Extensive notes clarify names, quarrels, and allusions. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://archive.org/details/goetheschillersx00goetiala/page/n7/mode/2up
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76691
ER  -