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...literary and spiritual movement which is a part of the general turning of the age toward idealistic views of life. His first book to attract general attention dealt with Schiller's Kantian studies and their influence upon the composition of "Wallenstein." Then followed his "Life of Herder," the best constructed and most illuminating biography of this forerunner of the classic epoch of German literature. This was followed by two philosophical treatises, "The Foundations of Philosophy," and "The Fundamental Conceptions of the Spinozian System"; and, finally by the "Life of Schiller," a book which may be said to belong...
...Jessen, after an absence from Cambridge of several weeks will resume his "Lectures on Literary Criticism in Germany," today at 3.30 o'clock, in Sever Hall, room F. The subject of the first lecture is "Herder as a critical force in German Life and Literature...
...second theme in German IV will be due on Monday, Nov. 7, instead of on Friday, as previously announced. The subject will be "Goethes Verhaltniss zu Herder...
...Born: Herder, 1744; Goethe, 1749; Schiller, 1759; Fichte, 1762; A. W. Schlegel, 1767; Schleiermacher, 1768; Hegel, 1770; Friedrich Schlegel, 1772; Novalis, 1772; Tieck, 1773; Schelling, 1775; Schopenbauer, 1788; Woldsworth, 1770; Scott, 1771; Coleridge, 1772; Southey, 1774; Byron, 1788; Shelley...
...force of Individualism is illustrated by the works of Lessing, Herder, Schiller and Goethe. Germans may well be proud of Lessing, for throughout his life he fought for noble causes. He fairly respected the rights of his opponents and, though falsely accused by the ignorant, he never wavered in his work. In judging Lessing we must take into consideration the circumstances under which he wrote since many of the reforms for which he strove, have now been established. But although his works are not now of the same value as they were, their effect on German life will never cease...