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XVI. Schiller's Attitude Toward England

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John Alexander Kelly
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“Of all the great German writers, Wieland's mind is the most French,” remarked Henry Crabb Robinson to Madame de Staël. “I am aware of it,” was her reply, “and therefore I do not think much of him. I like a German to be a German.”1 Had these two hero-worshippers become a bit better acquainted with Schiller than they were, it is easily conceivable that they might have made some such observation concerning him, substituting in the foregoing formula “English” for “French”; for, with all his characteristically German idealism, Schiller, whose “love of freedom, reverence for women, enthusiasm for the fine arts” the same Madame de Staël emphasizes, had much in common with the English temperament.

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PMLA , Volume 39 , Issue 2 , June 1924, pp. 346 - 357
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1924

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References

1 Diary, Reminiscences and Correspondence of Henry Crabb Robinson, Ed. T. Sadler, Boston 1870, I, 117.

2 Schillers Werke, Säkularausgabe, I, Einleitung pp. x and xv.

3 Brief an Caroline v. Beulwitz, 27. Nov. 1788.

4 Brief an Reinwald, 22. Juli 1883.

5 Brief an Dalberg, 24. August 1784.

6 An Reinwald, 9. Dec. 1782; an R. 24(?) Feb. 1783; an Körner, 7. Jan. 1788; an K., Neujahr 1789; an Lotte, 25. Feb. 1789; an Körner, 26. März 1789.

7 Madame de Staël, L'Allemagne, p. 154; Schiller's Brief an Körner, 4. Jan. 1804, in which he speaks of the difficulty he had in conversing with Madame de Staël.

8 15. Nov. 1789.

9 Cf. C. Sachs, “Schillers Beziehungen zur fr. und engl. Lit.” Archiv für das Studium neu. S pra. und Lit. XXX.

10 H. C. Robinson, op. cit., I, 137.

11 Both letters under date of Sept. 12, 1794.

12 2. Feb. 1800.

13 Brief an Henriette v. Wolzogen, 8. Jan. 1783.

14 An einen Stuttgarter Frevmd, 19. Juni 1783.

15 Briefe an Reinwald, 19. Juni 1783, 22. Juli 1783.

16 Brief an Wilhelm v. Wolzogen, 18. Jan. 1784.

17 Berger, Schiller, I, 306; Schiller's Brief an Körner, 20. April 1786.

18 Werke, Stuttgart 1871, IV, 110 ff.

19 Berger, Schiller, I, 381, 451.

20 Charlotte v. Schiller und ihre Freunde, Stuttgart 1860, I, 34; Schiller und Lotte (Fielitz), Stuttgart 1879, Einleitung p. 4.

21 Charlotte v. Schiller und ihre Freunde, III, 396.

22 Schiller an Lotte, 2. August 1788.

23 An Lotte, 3. Jan. 1789.

24 27. August 1790, in Charlotte v. S. und ihre Freunde, I, 334.

25 Brief an Schiller, in Schiller und Lotte, I, 201.

26 Charlotte v. S. und ihre Freunde, I, 123.

27 Charlotte von S. und ihre Freunde, II, 141 ff.

28 Schiller und Lotte, I, 52, footnote, and III, 154, footnote.

29 Charlotte v. S. und ihre Freunde, II, 359.

30 Schiller und Lotte, I, 117.

31 See, for example, Schiller's Brief an Cotta, 28. Nov. 1800; an Körner, 23. Sept. 1801.

32 H. C. Robinson, op. cit., pp. 73, 120.

33 Briefe an Reinwald, 19. Juni (falsch für Juli) 1783; 22. Juli, 1783.

34 27. Nov. 1789.

35 8. Juni 1799.

36 J. Minor, Schiller, I, 483.

37 B. Brahm, Schiller, I, 169.

38 Walz, “Three Swabian Journalists, I. Schiller,” Ameri-cana Germanica, IV, 95 fi.

39 B. Suphan, “Deutsche Grösse,” Schriften der Goethe-Gesellschaft, Weimar 1902.

40 F. Schleiermacher, On Religion, Speeches to its Cultivated Despisers, tr. by J. Oman, London 1893, pp. 9-10, 23.

41 F. Muncker, Anschauungen vont englischen Staat und Volk in der deutschen Literatur der letzten vier Jahrhunderte, München 1918, I, 97.

42 30. Jan.