Greklands gudar och andra dikter

by Friedrich Schiller, Jimmie Svensson (Translator)

Genres: Poetry, German Literature

89 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2021

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

[Erik Sundblom]

"Ge honom då en pokal! Åt poeten,
Hebe, skänk i.
Fukta så blicken med daggen, låt skymma,
så att han inte ser Hades, det grymma,
så att han tror att han är liksom vi.
Den himmelska källan skall porla och brusa
tills bröstet blir stilla och ögonen ljusa."

(Tredje och sista strofen i "Dityramb", s 56.)