Friedrich Schiller

The Artists

Poem exploring art's role in refining human sensibility

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Friedrich Schiller
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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