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 ... classics, and as such are not included in the scheme of this book. In the field of criticism his most important works are the Letters on Literature (1759-1765), which set a new standard of critical plain-speaking; the Laokoon (1766), which undertook to delimit the provinces of poetry and of plastic art; the Hamburg Dramaturgy (1767-1769), which assailed the prestige of the French classical tragedy, and the Anti-Goeze (1778), a notable defense of what is now called the higher criticism. He exerted an immense influence ...
— An anthology of German literature • Calvin Thomas |
