German Aesthetic and Literary Criticism

Klappentext The theory of classicism through the ideas and literature of Winckelmann! Schiller! Hamann and Goethe. Zusammenfassung This anthology! part of a three-volume series devoted to German aesthetic and literary criticism from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries! charts the development of aesthetic and literary theory in Germany in the latter half of the eighteenth century and its emancipation from the hitherto dominant influence of France. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Note on the translations; Introduction; 1. Winckelmann: Thoughts on the Imitation of the Painting and Sculpture of the Greeks; 2. Lessing: Laocoon, or On the Limits of Painting and Poetry, Letter to Nicolai, 26 May 1769; 3. Hamman: Aesthetica in nuce; 4. Herder: Extract from a correspondence on Ossian and the Songs of Ancient Peoples; 5. Schiller: On Naive and Sentimental Poetry; 6. Goethe: Winckelmann; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Klappentext

The theory of classicism through the ideas and literature of Winckelmann, Schiller, Hamann and Goethe.

Zusammenfassung
This anthology, part of a three-volume series devoted to German aesthetic and literary criticism from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, charts the development of aesthetic and literary theory in Germany in the latter half of the eighteenth century and its emancipation from the hitherto dominant influence of France.

Inhalt

Acknowledgements; Note on the translations; Introduction; 1. Winckelmann: Thoughts on the Imitation of the Painting and Sculpture of the Greeks; 2. Lessing: Laocoon, or On the Limits of Painting and Poetry, Letter to Nicolai, 26 May 1769; 3. Hamman: Aesthetica in nuce; 4. Herder: Extract from a correspondence on Ossian and the Songs of Ancient Peoples; 5. Schiller: On Naive and Sentimental Poetry; 6. Goethe: Winckelmann; Notes; Bibliography; Index.