Visions of Philhellenism in the Poetry of Wilhelm von Humboldt: Between Historical Analysis and Idealized Modernity
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Visions of Philhellenism in the Poetry of Wilhelm von Humboldt: Between Historical Analysis and Idealized Modernity. / Saure, Felix.
In: Publications of the English Goethe Society, Vol. 82, No. 3, 01.10.2013, p. 159-179.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Visions of Philhellenism in the Poetry of Wilhelm von Humboldt: Between Historical Analysis and Idealized Modernity
AU - Saure, Felix
N1 - Felix Saure teaches at Leuphana Universität, Lüneburg, and at a Gymnasium in Hamburg. The focus of his research and teaching is history of Bildung, especially Wilhelm von Humboldt; sports and antiquity in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; Karl Friedrich Schinkel; literature of the GDR; and historical novels.
PY - 2013/10/1
Y1 - 2013/10/1
N2 - Wilhelm von Humboldt is one of Germany‘s most prominent graecophiles. His poems — despite their artistic mediocrity — reveal Humboldt’s reflections on the course of history, as well as the connection between the idea of Bildung and his visions for the German nation. His lyric poetry can be seen as belonging to the tradition of an idealistic view of history found also in works by Schiller and Herder. Based on Winckelmann’s image of classical Greece, Humboldt develops a distinct, political view of history, combining his fascination for ‘Hellas’, a critique of ancient Rome and modern France, and ideas about the national future of Germany.
AB - Wilhelm von Humboldt is one of Germany‘s most prominent graecophiles. His poems — despite their artistic mediocrity — reveal Humboldt’s reflections on the course of history, as well as the connection between the idea of Bildung and his visions for the German nation. His lyric poetry can be seen as belonging to the tradition of an idealistic view of history found also in works by Schiller and Herder. Based on Winckelmann’s image of classical Greece, Humboldt develops a distinct, political view of history, combining his fascination for ‘Hellas’, a critique of ancient Rome and modern France, and ideas about the national future of Germany.
KW - Wilhelm von Humboldt
KW - poetry
KW - philhellenism
KW - Bildung
KW - reception of antiquity
KW - Johann Joachim Winckelmann
KW - Rome (as image)
KW - ancient Rome
KW - ancient Greece
KW - Educational science
UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/5dca7ab6-2bc8-3358-860f-108992933fda/
U2 - 10.1179/0959368313Z.0000000023
DO - 10.1179/0959368313Z.0000000023
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 82
SP - 159
EP - 179
JO - Publications of the English Goethe Society
JF - Publications of the English Goethe Society
SN - 0959-3683
IS - 3
ER -