The German Art

Friedrich Schiller 1759 (Marbach am Neckar) – 1805 (Weimar)



By no kind Augustus reared,
To no Medici endeared,
 German art arose;
Fostering glory smiled not on her,
Ne'er with kingly smiles to sun her,
 Did her blooms unclose.

No,--she went by monarchs slighted
Went unhonored, unrequited,
 From high Frederick's throne;
Praise and pride be all the greater,
That man's genius did create her,
 From man's worth alone.

Therefore, all from loftier mountains,
Purer wells and richer fountains,
 Streams our poet-art;
So no rule to curb its rushing--
All the fuller flows it gushing
 From its deep--the heart!

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Scheme XXABBA CCDBBD EEFGGF
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 535
Words 91
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 6, 6, 6

Friedrich Schiller

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was a German poet philosopher historian and playwright During the last seventeen years of his life Schiller struck up a productive if complicated friendship with already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang Goethe with whom he frequently discussed issues concerning aesthetics and encouraged Goethe to finish works he left merely as sketches this relationship and these discussions led to a period now referred to as Weimar Classicism They also worked together on Die Xenien The Xenies a collection of short but harshly satirical poems in which both Schiller and Goethe verbally attacked those persons they perceived to be enemies of their aesthetic agenda. more…

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