In 1797 Goethe and Schiller published hundreds of biting epigrams in elegiac couplets in Schiller’s Musen-Almanach, attacking critics, rival writers and literary fashions. Paul Carus presents a selection with the German originals facing English verse translations, prefaced by a history of the quarrel and notes identifying targets such as the Brothers Stolberg.
A key episode of Weimar classicism, sharp and funny in both languages. Download the free EPUB.