Ode to Joy

Name: Ode to Joy
Author: Friedrich Schiller

by Friedrich Schiller

Ode celebrating brotherhood, joy, and universal human unity

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Friedrich Schiller

Germany's greatest dramatist after Goethe, Schiller wrote plays of passionate idealism exploring freedom, tyranny, and moral heroism. His early Storm and Stress works scandalized audiences with their revolutionary energy. He and Goethe formed the most celebrated literary friendship in German history.

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