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Herder wrote an important essay on Shakespeare and Auszug aus einem Briefwechsel über Ossian und die Lieder alter Völker (Extract from a correspondence about Ossian and the Songs of Ancient Peoples) published in 1773 in a manifesto along with contributions by Goethe and Justus Möser. Herder wrote that "A poet is the creator of the nation ...
Oct 23, 2001 · Herder’s theory of translation (as just summarized), together with his demonstration of its viability in practice, for example, in his sample translations of Shakespeare in the Popular Songs, had an enormous and beneficial impact on a whole generation of German translation theorists and practitioners—including Johann Heinrich Voss (the ...
In chapter 1 of Comparing the Literatures, David Damrosch quotes Johann Gottfried Herder’s coda to his 1773 essay on Shakespeare. In it, Herder reflects on the fate of obsolescence that awaits every writer, even Shakespeare:
JOHANN GOTTFRIED HERDER gradually as to make them believe they had never lost it, the previous dithyrambic feeling. To this end he expanded each scene, retained the choruses, and turned them into staging posts for the action; their every word ensured that his audience never lost sight of the whole, kept them
Mar 10, 2008 · Johann Gottfried Herder. Without Johann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803), we simply would not understand Shakespeare in the way we do. In fact, much literature and art besides Shakespeare would neither look the same nor be the same without the influence of Herder’s “Shakespeare” (1773).
Herder’s Shakespeare is a milestone in the development of literary theory. First pub-lished in1773, as one offive contributions to a pamphlet edited by Herder himself and entitled Von deutscher Art und Kunst (On German Character and Art), it repre-sents a defiant rejection of Enlightenment poetics, neoclassicism, and the dominance of French ...
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One of the most important and original works in the history of literary criticism, this passionate essay pioneered a new, historicist approach to cultural artifacts by arguing that they should be judged not by their conformity to a set of conventions imported from another time and place, but by the effectiveness of their response to their own hi...
