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December 12, Goethe and Schiller. Asst. Professor Bartlett...
December 12-Goethe and Schiller. Asst. Professor Bartlett...
...third epoch it is the ideas of personal liberty and individual development which animate the literature. The religious and political movements toward freedom which are characteristic of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries influence the literature. Two immortal men, Goethe and Schiller, both working for the same end, an ideal humanity, are the central figures of this last epoch...
...Goethe and Schiller. Asst. Professor Bartlett...
...Hapgood discusses "Carlyle's Estimate of the Eighteenth Century." He does not agree with Carlyle that it was a "decrepit, death-sick era," when Addison, Defoe, Richardson founded the essay, the newspaper, the novel, when Burns, Goethe, Schiller were enriching poetry; when science was making enormous strides under the impulse of Franklin, Newton, Herschel. The writer concludes with a comparison of "Carlyle's harsh estimate" with "Mr. Lecky's admirable summary...