Schiller, Friedrich

People best know long didactic poems and historical plays, such as

Don Carlos

(1787) and

William Tell

(1804), of leading romanticist German poet, dramatist, and historian Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller.

This philosopher and dramatist struck up a productive if complicated friendship with already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang von Goethe during the last eighteen years of his life and encouraged Goethe to finish works that he left merely as sketches; they greatly discussed issues concerning aesthetics and thus gave way to a period, now referred to as classicism of Weimar. They also worked together on

Die Xenien

(

The Xenies

), a collection of short but harsh satires that verbally attacked perceived enemies of their aesthetic agenda.

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