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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “Dichtung und Wahrheit”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “Dichtung und Wahrheit”
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The longing for Myth

Early Romantic writers encouraged the first stirring of German national feeling. Central to this project was the celebration of German folk traditions and mythology. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was one of the first romantic poets to employ as protagonists supernatural figures drawn from German folklore, . . . . .

Goethe and Shiller’s contemporary, Johann Gottfried Herder, sought the roots of the German nation in ancient German folk tales and Norse mythology. ‘A poet is the creator of the nation around him,’ Herder explained, who ‘has their souls in his hand to lead them.’ Johann Gottlieb Fichte, in his ‘letters to the German Nation’ and Renst Moritz Arndt, in poems such as ‘The German Fatherland’. Supplemented these ideas with a quasi-mystical idea of ethnicity (Volkstum). Friedrich Schelling, for his part, suggested that spiritual divide differentiated superior race like the Germans from lesser races. ~ Page 4 ~ Eric Kurlander (author)
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