[9.] Thusnelda greets her husband on his return from the victory over the Roman legions under Quinctilius Varus in the Teutoburg Wood.
[ LXXI. CHRISTOPH MARTIN WIELAND]
1733-1813. Wieland’s great service is to have set forth the cultural problems and tendencies of the Age of Reason in an attractive literary form. His most important imaginative works are prose tales and narrative poems having a Greek, a medieval, or an Oriental setting, but dealing in reality with living issues of his own day. His Agathon (1766-1794) marks the beginning of the German Bildungsroman. He had much in common with the Gallic genius and was widely read in French translations—the first German to attain that distinction. During the last quarter of the 18th century he was the most popular and influential of German writers.
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From ‘Musarion,’ lines 1385-1446; The happy estate of the converted Phanias.[1]
Der schönste Tag folgt dieser schönen Nacht.
Mit jedem folgenden find’t jedes sich beglückter,
Indem es sich im andern glücklich macht.
Durch überstandne Not geschickter
Zum weiseren Gebrauch, zum reizendern Genuss