Laokoon, and How the ancients represented death

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Helen Zimmern

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tijL BOHN'S LIBRARIES WERE INAUGUR- ATED IN BY HENRY GEORGE1847 AND IN WEREBOHN, TAKEN1864 BYOVER THE PRESENT PUBLISHERS. GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING WAS HORN ON AT CAMENTZJAN. 29, 1729, IN SAXONY AND DIED ON FEB. 15, THE HIS MOST1781. LAOKOON, FAMOUS FIRST APPEARED INWORK, I THE PRESENT EDITION IS SUB-766. STANTIALLY A REPRINT OF BEASLEY'S INFIRST PUBLISHEDTRANSLATION, TO THIS IS ADDED THE ESSAY1853. ON HOW THE ANCIENTS REPRE- SENTED TRANSLATED BYDEATH, MISS HELEN ZIMMERN .AOKOON THEHOW ANCIENTS REPRESENTED DEATH GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM L.ESSING LONDON G. BELL AND LTD.SONS, 1914 CONTENTS. PAGE viiINTRODUCTION .. OF LAOKOON .. .. xixSYNOPSIS OF CONTENTS .. 1LAOKOON 171How THE ANCIENTS KEPBESENTED DEATH .. .. 2039350 INTRODUCTION. is no writer whose worksTHOUGH there "be moramay studied as a whole than thereadvantageously Lessing's, few of who are known inare thisequal importance in so and a manner. Variouscountry partial fragmentary translations of 'Nathan der Weise' and 'Minna von ' Barnhelm it is exhibited himhave, true, fairly enough as a dramatist of refined and liberalhumour,pure style, at the same time another class of readers hasthought; had more than one of the treatise onopportunity studying ' the and his andLaokoon,' admiring vigorous suggestive of criticism and wide which mustetyle scholarship, it a interest whatever substantialgive literaryalways value be to it.

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• Aesthetics

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• Publié par: les_archives_du_savoir
• Nombre de lectures: 6
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 10 Mo

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tijLBOHN'S LIBRARIES WERE INAUGUR-
ATED IN BY HENRY GEORGE1847
AND IN WEREBOHN, TAKEN1864
BYOVER THE PRESENT PUBLISHERS.
GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING WAS
HORN ON AT CAMENTZJAN. 29, 1729,
IN SAXONY AND DIED ON FEB. 15,
THE HIS MOST1781. LAOKOON,
FAMOUS FIRST APPEARED INWORK,
I THE PRESENT EDITION IS SUB-766.
STANTIALLY A REPRINT OF BEASLEY'S
INFIRST PUBLISHEDTRANSLATION,
TO THIS IS ADDED THE ESSAY1853.
ON HOW THE ANCIENTS REPRE-
SENTED TRANSLATED BYDEATH,
MISS HELEN ZIMMERN.AOKOON
THEHOW ANCIENTS REPRESENTED
DEATH
GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM L.ESSING
LONDON
G. BELL AND LTD.SONS,
1914CONTENTS.
PAGE
viiINTRODUCTION ..
OF LAOKOON .. .. xixSYNOPSIS OF CONTENTS ..
1LAOKOON
171How THE ANCIENTS KEPBESENTED DEATH .. ..
2039350