/lit/ - Literature

>>19293325
>>19294480
You know the answer, OP. Who wrote the Ode to Joy?

>>18127094
The author of Ode to Joy, of course.

General thread for discussing Schiller

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Despite being Germany's best playwright the works of Schiller have not enjoyed enough attention. Penguin and Oxford both offer editions of two of his plays each (The Robbers and Wallenstein from Penguin, and Don Carlos and Mary Stuart from Oxford), but do not offer a complete poems book.

This is because, like Nietzsche, he was exalted by German nationalists, but unlike Nietzsche, his works have not seen a grand revival. Instead Schiller scholarship has trickled down over the years with Friedrich Schiller by Lesley Sharpe (1991) being the first general study since the time of WW2.

Schiller will be of interest not only to those studying the art period of German Romanticism, but also those interested in Jung and Hegel, who both felt the influence of Schiller. Jung in particular offers commentary on Schiller's letters and his criticism for his Ideas on the Type Problem, part II of his theory of personality types in the CW 6.

>>17338634
Pic related is so good he influenced existential philosophy to a greater degree than Shakespeare, through his influence on Dostoevsky

Where could I read poems by this guy in English?

Book (instead of online website) answers are preferred