xenien

This argument was continued in his collection of short and critical poems, the Xenien, and his play Faust.

They also worked together on Xenien, a collection of short satirical poems in which both Schiller and Goethe challenge opponents to their philosophical vision.

Manso's own writing was in turn mocked by Schiller, writing together with Goethe, in their Xenien.

The Xenien succeeded as a retaliation on the critics, but the masterpieces which followed them proved in the long run much more effective weapons against the prevailing mediocrity.

Hanns Jelinek : Zehn Zahme Xenien opus 32 pour violon et piano.

The Xenien were prompted by the indifference and animosity of contemporary criticism, and its disregard for what the two poets regarded as the higher interests of German poetry.

Following this precedent, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe named a collection of distichs, which he wrote together with Friedrich Schiller, Die Xenien, in which the two friends avenged themselves on opposing critics.

Involuntarily, Mr. Grass continues a tradition that, through Thomas Mann, takes us right back to the terrible Goethe-Schiller "Xenien," which Mr. Grass quotes: To form yourselves into a nation, Germans, you hope in vain; Form yourselves, rather, as well you can, into freer beings.