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

by benbreen • 2 comments • 17 points
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[−] trhway 28d 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.

[−] gavmor 28d ago
I'm not familiar with their ouvres, but I am surprised to find myself disagreeing with the Romanticist verse. Am I getting older?