From Optiz to Lessing: a Study of Pseudo-Classicism in Literature
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The German writers were never tired of making allusions to Frederick's indifference to their work. ISTot only was it impossible to recall the golden age of Latin literature without thinking of Augustus, but the position of ' See his " Leasing als Reformator der deutschen Sprache." 1"" Theil, p. 83.
FROM OPITZ TO LESSESTG. 153 Richelieu and of Louis XIY. in France to- wards writers aroused envy in every Ger- man who was interested in letters. When Frederick, a few days before Eossbach (1757), ga...ve an audience to Gottsched, the writer said Germany lacked an Augustus, Frederick retorted that they bad one. "'But no M^cenas,' I answered." [ It is Gottsched who describes the scene. J "' There you are right,' said the king. When I urged fur- ther that German writers were discouraged because the nobility and the courtiers wer6 too familiar with French and too ignorant of German to understand and appreciate their own language, he said, ' That is true, for I have never read a German book since I was a boy, and I speak the language like a coachman ' [they were talking in French] 'but now I 'm an old fellow of forty-six and have no time to give to it.' " Three years later, in talking with Gellert, Frederick asked, " Why have we no more good au- thors?" — a tactful question, it will be 154 PROM opiTz TO liESSisra.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The German writers were never tired of making allusions to Frederick's indifference to their work. ISTot only was it impossible to recall the golden age of Latin literature without thinking of Augustus, but the position of ' See his " Leasing als Reformator der deutschen Sprache." 1"" Theil, p. 83.
FROM OPITZ TO LESSESTG. 153 Richelieu and of Louis XIY. in France to- wards writers aroused envy in every Ger- man who was interested in letters. When Frederick, a few days before Eossbach (1757), ga...ve an audience to Gottsched, the writer said Germany lacked an Augustus, Frederick retorted that they bad one. "'But no M^cenas,' I answered." [ It is Gottsched who describes the scene. J "' There you are right,' said the king. When I urged fur- ther that German writers were discouraged because the nobility and the courtiers wer6 too familiar with French and too ignorant of German to understand and appreciate their own language, he said, ' That is true, for I have never read a German book since I was a boy, and I speak the language like a coachman ' [they were talking in French] 'but now I 'm an old fellow of forty-six and have no time to give to it.' " Three years later, in talking with Gellert, Frederick asked, " Why have we no more good au- thors?" — a tactful question, it will be 154 PROM opiTz TO liESSisra.
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