Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature
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Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature is by August Wilhelm von Schlegel. The text says that the mental culture of the Greeks was a finished education in the school of Nature, and that they invented the poetry of joy. The text allows that the Greeks may have succeeded highly in the Beautiful, and even in the Moral, but says we cannot concede any higher character to their civilisation than that of a refined and ennobled sensuality.
The text says that the national characters of the French and Spanish are totally different, and that one must go very differently to work from Voltaire in Heraclius. Calderon, at the request of a great Lord and shortly before his death, gave a list of his genuine works, naming a hundred and eleven plays, while the best edition of the plays, that of Apontes, contains only a hundred and eight pieces.
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- Pages
- 458
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- English
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