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The Influence of Schiller in Russia: 1800-1840

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2018

Charles E. Passage
Charles E. Passage*
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Harvard University
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In considering the literary works of Schiller, one is confronted by the unusual phenomenon of having before him what seems at first to be no less than three separate personalities: the writer of the four youthful plays, the lyric poet, and the great dramatist of the years from 1799-1805. Upon closer study, to be sure, a definite unity of purpose and of temperament is revealed. But it is not at all surprising that his contemporaries and the generation which immediately followed him were some times at a loss to know just where to place him. Schiller's untimely death in 1805 interrupted a fertile creative period which the poet himself would in all likelihood have regarded as but the beginning of yet another excursion into new fields, and he could hardly have been happy to know that at the hour of his death the vanguard of Russian literati, almost wholly unaware of his major works, mourned him as the poet of Die Räuber and Don Carlos.

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American Slavic and East European Review , Volume 5 , Issue 1-2 , May 1946 , pp. 111 - 137
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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 1946

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