Author: Allen Wilson Porterfield

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13: 9781230283487

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... SECTION VIII THE SIDE LIGHTS Strictly speaking, literary "schools" have not been numerous in Germany. There have not been many instances where a number of poets--more than two--holding a common doctrine, accepting the same teachings, exhibiting in practice the same general methods and intellectual bent, have banded together and made propaganda for a common cause. The very fact that a man is a poet is proof positive that he is different from other men, including other poets, and there never were even two poets exactly or even nearly alike. To have a successful school, there must be good teamwork; and to have this, a long series of similarities on the part of the participants is necessary. We can speak of the First Silesian School (1625-75), the Second Silesian School (1650-1700), the (c)otthtger ain (1767-1800), Storm and Stress (176787), the Berlin-Jena Romantic School (1798-1801), the Heidelberg Romantic School (1806-08) and Young Germany (1830-48) with more or less propriety, and with that the list of " schools" is about complete. Goethe and Schiller established a Classical School (1794-1805) at Weimar only in the sense that they wrote poetry of a high order, which found many imitators and many more readers and admirers. But it is with a school as with a triangle, or with jealousy: it requires three parts to complete it. And then a school is unlike a triangle, or jealousy, in that more than three parts will tend to make it more nearly perfect, more enduring and effective. In the case of the twenty-eight poets, grouped under this rubric, we have to do with a number of men each one of whom went his own way and accomplished something that makes him unforgetable. They lived in the age of Romanticism and were not merely influenced.

Download or read book An Outline of German Romanticism, 1766-1866 written by Allen Wilson Porterfield and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... SECTION VIII THE SIDE LIGHTS Strictly speaking, literary "schools" have not been numerous in Germany. There have not been many instances where a number of poets--more than two--holding a common doctrine, accepting the same teachings, exhibiting in practice the same general methods and intellectual bent, have banded together and made propaganda for a common cause. The very fact that a man is a poet is proof positive that he is different from other men, including other poets, and there never were even two poets exactly or even nearly alike. To have a successful school, there must be good teamwork; and to have this, a long series of similarities on the part of the participants is necessary. We can speak of the First Silesian School (1625-75), the Second Silesian School (1650-1700), the (c)otthtger ain (1767-1800), Storm and Stress (176787), the Berlin-Jena Romantic School (1798-1801), the Heidelberg Romantic School (1806-08) and Young Germany (1830-48) with more or less propriety, and with that the list of " schools" is about complete. Goethe and Schiller established a Classical School (1794-1805) at Weimar only in the sense that they wrote poetry of a high order, which found many imitators and many more readers and admirers. But it is with a school as with a triangle, or with jealousy: it requires three parts to complete it. And then a school is unlike a triangle, or jealousy, in that more than three parts will tend to make it more nearly perfect, more enduring and effective. In the case of the twenty-eight poets, grouped under this rubric, we have to do with a number of men each one of whom went his own way and accomplished something that makes him unforgetable. They lived in the age of Romanticism and were not merely influenced.