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Briefe, die neueste Literatur betreffend

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Lessing

In Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: Rising reputation as dramatist and critic.
…contributed regularly to Nicolai’s weekly, Briefe, die neueste Literatur betreffend (“Letters Concerning the Latest Literature”), writing a number of essays on contemporary literature. The central point of these was a vigorous attack on the influential theatre critic J.C. Gottsched for his advocacy of a theatre modeled on French drama, especially…
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Nicolai

In Friedrich Nicolai
…with both Lessing and Mendelssohn, Briefe, die neueste Litteratur betreffend (1761–66; “Letters on the Modern Literary Question”). He also edited the Allgemeine deutsche Bibliothek (1765–92), the organ of the “popular philosophers” who fought against authority in religion and what they conceived to be extravagance in literature. Nicolai showed a complete…
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