The Poems of Schiller — Suppressed poems

by Friedrich Schiller

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Genres: Poetry

42 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 24, 2011

About the author

People best know long didactic poems and historical plays, such as Don Carlos (1787) and William Tell (1804), of leading romanticist German poet, dramatist, and historian Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller.

This philosopher and dramatist struck up a productive if complicated friendship with already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang von Goethe during the last eighteen years of his life and encouraged Goethe to finish works that he left merely as sketches; they greatly discussed issues concerning aesthetics and thus gave way to a period, now referred to as classicism of Weimar. They also worked together on Die Xenien ( The Xenies ), a collection of short but harsh satires that verbally attacked perceived enemies of their aesthetic agenda.

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Reviews

[Aaron Schuschu · Rating 3 out of 5]

Typical nineteenth century fare from a continental poet- fetishizing of arms and references to Greek mythology that are a thin veil for weird unrequited love type situations. Also some jabs at politicians and other philosophers. No wonder these were suppressed. 1) Who the hell is Laura? Get over her. 2) interesting that Islamic references are brought up

[Annemary Noble · Rating 5 out of 5]

It wasn't exactly this book of selected Schiller poems that I read, but this seemed the closest.
Overall, maybe I couldn't follow exactly the line of thought in a couple poems but they were at least well written and way more enyojable than William Blake's. That guy surely had depression.
That's it, that's my big review.