This study attempts to identify and analyze the images of transience in Schiller's poetic work. In the early poems a major series of images of transience reveals his baroque heritage. The surprising aspect of the poems which follow the historical studies and the engrossment in Kant is that the same images of transience remain. The persistent images of transience make it clear that Schiller was far from being an ivory tower idealist, rather he was a realist who perceived the grim visage of life.
| ISBN: | 9783261029447 |
| Publication date: | 31st December 1977 |
| Author: | Ronald L Crawford |
| Publisher: | Lang, Peter, AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften an imprint of Lang, Peter, AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissen |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 112 pages |
| Series: | Europaische Hochschulschriften : Reihe 1: Deutsche Sprache Und Literatur |
| Genres: |
Biography, Literature and Literary studies Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 |