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_aGoethe, Johann Wolfgang von, _d1749-1832 |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | _aGoethe and Schiller's Xenions |
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_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025 |
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| 500 | _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenien | ||
| 500 | _aRelease date is 2025-08-17 | ||
| 508 | _aMarkus 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.) | ||
| 520 | _a"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.) | ||
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| 653 | _aGerman literature -- 18th century -- Translations into English | ||
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_aSchiller, Friedrich, _d1759-1805 |
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_aCarus, Paul, _d1852-1919 |
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