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by Friedrich Schiller (Author), Alexander Schmidt (Introduction by), Alexander Schmidt (Notes by)
German poet and philosopher Friedrich Schiller's famous text on art, politics, and society
"The artist is certainly the child of his age, but all the worse for him if he is at the same time its pupil, even worse its minion."
Author Biography
Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) was one of the founders of German Romanticism and one of the greatest playwrights, poets, and theorists writing in German. Some of the most productive years of his short life were spent in Weimar, where his creative friendship with Goethe has taken on a mythic status. His poem "Ode to Joy" became the basis for the finale of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and is now the European Union's anthem.
Alexander Schmidt (introducer) teaches at the Friedrich Schiller University, Iena, Germany, and is currently the Feodor Lynen Fellow at the University of Chicago. Keith Tribe (translator) has studied and taught at universities in Germany and the UK and is a distinguished author and translator.
Number of Pages: 224
Dimensions: 0.5 x 7.7 x 5.1 IN
Publication Date: December 06, 2016
