"Wretches, Speak Evil of Me": Goethe and Schiller's Xenions (1896 Edition)

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benbreen

3 days ago


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gavmor 2 hours ago

I'm not familiar with their ouvres, but I am surprised to find myself disagreeing with the Romanticist verse. Am I getting older?

trhway 7 hours ago

>But we expect better from the writers of the past, especially those of the eighteenth century

They did “better” - as just 100 years before they would have just killed each other with some version of a kabob stick.