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Kleist
He carries the burdens of his fate with him into his writings, and the incurable wound in the breast of every one of his heroes is at the same time the gulf that severs in twain a universe divided against itself. […] It was this recognition of the universe as an insoluble enigma that gave Kleist his faculty as a tragic dramatist…
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He carries the burdens of his fate with him into his writings, and the incurable wound in the breast of every one of his heroes is at the same time the gulf that severs in twain a universe divided against itself. […] It was this recognition of the universe as an insoluble enigma that gave Kleist his faculty as a tragic dramatist…
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Hölderlin
Goethe, Schiller and their congeners return from poesy as from a journey, as from a visit to another land, a little tired sometimes, but with a sound mind in a sound body. Hölderlin falls out of the poetic ecstasy like Lucifer falling from heaven, and, finding himself once more in the field of concrete fact, is wounded, crushed, an outcast.
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Goethe, Schiller and their congeners return from poesy as from a journey, as from a visit to another land, a little tired sometimes, but with a sound mind in a sound body. Hölderlin falls out of the poetic ecstasy like Lucifer falling from heaven, and, finding himself once more in the field of concrete fact, is wounded, crushed, an outcast.
