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- Romanticism: 100 Poems
- Romanticism: 100 Poems
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Introduction
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- Charlotte Smith (1749–1806; English)
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832; German)
- William Blake (1757–1827; English)
- Robert Burns (1759–1796; Scottish)
- Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805; German)
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Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805; German)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 February 2021
- Romanticism: 100 Poems
- Romanticism: 100 Poems
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part
- Charlotte Smith (1749–1806; English)
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832; German)
- William Blake (1757–1827; English)
- Robert Burns (1759–1796; Scottish)
- Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805; German)
- Part
- Part
- Part
- Part
- Part
- Part
- Part
- Part
- Part
Summary
Widely held to be the greatest playwright in German, Johann Christoph Friedrich Schiller also wrote lyric and narrative poetry, essays, and histories. He became notorious for a play he wrote at school in 1781, Die Raüber (The Robbers), a Sturm-und-Drang tragedy about the abuse of power in families and the state; in trouble with the authorities over it, he fled to Stuttgart and made a new start. He was to write eight more plays, four of which were made into operas by Verdi; Wallenstein was translated into English by Coleridge; Wilhelm Tell became an opera by Rossini with a famous overture.
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- Romanticism: 100 Poems , pp. 20 - 23Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021