On Naïve and Sentimental Poetry

On Naive and Sentimental Poetry is a seal theoretical treatise by Friedrich Schiller from the year 1795. In it, Schiller describes various types of poetic relationship to the world.

The font is embedded in a philosophy of history ( Nature - Culture - Ideal ) and cultural criticism. The present, the stage of the crop is represented as critical and überwindenswert. As in Schiller's Aesthetic Letters revolve considerations to the question of whether the art is ready there is a potential for overcoming the Ganzheitlichkeitsverlusts and the unnaturalness of the present age. The desired condition is called Schiller " ideal." The instances in which it reaches the representation that " nature" in the form of " naive " and " sentimental " poetry are.

In the progress of the document shows that the Naive is not repeatable in the present - actually it is itself a projection of the sentimental consciousness - on the other side of the sentimental poetry under the difficult conditions of the present can not ultimately succeed. This applies to all three subspecies of sentimental poetry - satire, elegy and idyll. Even the idyll that could make the " fore " the ideal, failing that, in its concrete representation " of reality with their barriers and culture, with its artificiality " comes to light. You, the deviation between ideal and reality do not cancel, but only reproduce.

Example

The naive poet, as Homer is, according to Schiller as the child and the old man at all " at one with yourself and happy in feeling his humanity "; the other hand, are "we" - the modern man and sentimental poet - " disagree with ourselves and unhappy in our experience of mankind." Our sense

Work in full text

  • Friedrich Schiller: Naive and Sentimental Poetry. In: The Hours 1795 /96 apply. [ Tl 1: ] About the Naive. In: The Hours 1795 11th St., T. VIII, pp. 43-76. ( Digitized and full text in German Text Archive ).
  • [ Tl 3: ] decision of the treatise on naive and sentimental poet. In: The Hours 1796 1 St., T. VII, pp. 75-122. ( Digitized and full text in German Text Archive ).
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