Word: schlegell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...single idea or mood, although such length is accompanied by austere artistic control. Mahler's habit of multiple commentary on thematic materials helps to explain is romanticism, the fundamental tenet of which seems to have been the idea that beauty is the coaloescence of the diverse. As Schlegel wrote...
...contrast, J. W. von Goethe, the German Shakespeare (who is not terribly popular in England, the U.S., Australia, Canada or New Zealand), ran a poor second. In the three countries, 86 theaters staged his plays last season in 1,980 performances. The chief reason is A. W. von Schlegel, a German writer whose stunning translations of Shakespeare were completed in 1840. He was such an accomplished poet himself that people who know both languages often claim that the German versions of Shakespeare's plays are better than the originals...