The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-05-09

/ aTt-lOving king. FredeTids Y of Den
mark. called him to Copenhagen. and
/ there KlopstoCk remained twenty
! years. After the death of his patron
+ he lived almost continuously in or near
! Hamburg, where In 1903 ne died. hon
! ored as the patriarch Of modern -
man literature. His fame rests UI11n
/ his many lyric poems and mainly upon
| his masterpiece, The Messiah" nom
inally a religious epic in twenty can
/ tOs, singing Christ's death. resurrec-
ton and ascension. the chief beauties
/ of which, however, are also lyrics in
their nature. Indeed. as regards the
form and style of his great work Klop-
stock ought never to have been called
the German Milton; he is rather a lit
erary Bach OF Handel. and his work
literary oratOTiO in its profuse blend
ing Of lyric aTias and dramatic cho-
ruses with epic recitative.
Christoph Martin Wieland was born
near BibeTach in Wurtemberg in 1913
and died in 1918 at Weimar. whittier
/ he was called by Duchess Amalia in
/ 1972 as tutor of her sons. His youth
I tul writings, Influenced by KlOpstock
and Plato, were followed by period Of
4 revulsion from their pietistic strain to
/ delight in the world and the plea ures
! Of sense. Finding the golden mean, he
/ was at the height of his power during
| the first decade Of his residence in
| Weimar. His notable novels are
/ 'AgathOn" 0766). THE Inhabitants Of
/ Abdera" 0774 and 'Peregrinus Pro-
/ teuS" 0I9D. He wrote many comic
1 tales in verse. an epic-didactic poem,
"Musarion' 076S), and other shorter
and longer epics in verse. He first
naturalized Shakespeare in Germany
( by transiating in prose a large portion
Of his plays. Wieland's masterpiece is
the romantic epic "ObeTOn" 07S0). in
/ which chivalry. the orient and fairy
/ lore are charmingly interviewer.
BY his own writings and his long
edltorship of a popular literary jour
nal Wieland made German style more
/ fluent and elegant, won over the high
/ er classes from French 60 German lit
eratuTe and popUlaTized English and
/ French philosophy. The mature KlOp-
stock was more national. religious.
! idealistic and Withal English in his lit
erary syn-p athies. Wieland was health
/ lily cosmopolitan, ratiOnalistic. realistic
/ and appreciative of French excellence.
Through the Iabors of the German
/ writer's prior to the time at which we
/ have now arrived Germany had been
/ brought into the movement Of the best
Z European culture and was rapidly as
] L
/ ever, necessary for the German Spirit
I independently to react upon this for
eign stimulus. The leaders of this re-
/ action were Leasing and Herder.
/ Gotthold Ephriam Leasing, born in
! 1929 at Kamenz, in Upper Lusatia, died
/ in 1871 at Braunschweig, is one of the
! great critics of modern times in liter
I allure and art, and the founder of the
modern German drama. he freed not
/ Germany alone but the entire modern
/ world from the conventional classicism
Of the French. while on the positive
side he created a small number of lit
erary masterpieces. uniting Wieland 5
/ realism and KlODStOck's idealism
The chief critical writings Of Lessine
were Letters on the Latest Litera-
turc' Q759-60). LaokoOn" G766)
! Hamburg Dramaturgy' G76O. Of the
/ 'LaOkOOn" Goethe declared: 1T trans
ported us from the region of petty OBJ
servatiOn into the free fields OF
1 thought The difference be
tween plastic art and poetry was made
clear. All previous CRITICS n
was thrown away like worn-out
eaat."
The epoch-making dramas of Leasing
/ were Miss sara Sampson" QT55), the
first German tragedy of common life;
I "Minna Won .Barnhelm" G76D. the frs
classic German comedy; Emilia Ga
lottf' 0772). the first classic German
I tragedy, and Nathan the Wise" Q779
q dramatic poem. his chief production
in pure literature. a beautiful poetic
presentation of his best thought ana
feeling In the domain of religion.
To this thought and feeling he gave
more systematic statement in thC
short prose work, THE Education al
the Human Race" (1Ts0), in which is
clearly set forth the previously fore
Swallowed idea of organic growth in
religion. 1t was Of this brief treatise
I that the philosopher and theologiar
James Martineau wrote the words
Nor shall we ever forget the wonde.
and delight the awful sense nf intel
lectual space. brought to US by the