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The Public Domain Review has a little article on a bilingual selection from Xenien by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) and Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805). These Xenien, little two-line poems, originated in a sort of cheeky to-and-fro one-upmanship between Goethe and Schiller. The original collaborative work was published in Musen-Almanach in 1797. The Public Domain Review […]