Alexis und Dora
work by Goethe
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- In Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Friendship with Schiller (1794–1805) of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
…his finest poems, the “idyll” Alexis und Dora. In the autumn he began an epic in the Homeric manner but set in contemporary Germany and dealing with the response of ordinary small-town people to the French Revolution and the associated wars: Herrmann und Dorothea, published in 1797, one of the…
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