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English Translations of the
Works of Schiller and Others

Please note: Translations are original, and if quoted must be attributed to the Schiller Institute and the author (if signed.), as well Fidelio Magazine or other publications in which they appeared.


Friedrich Schiller's Works

Other Authors in this Section:

Johann Wolfgang Goethe
W. von Humboldt
Heinrich Heine
Johannes Kepler
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Moses Mendelssohn
Nicholas of Cusa
Solon of Athens
Plato
Alexander Pushkin
Vladimir I. Vernadsky
King Louis XI of France


Works of Friedrich Schiller

Schiller Poetry Translations
Including:

The Cranes Of Ibykus
Ode to Joy
The Song of the Bell
Other translations of Schiller's Poems and other Classical Poets

 


Friedrich Schiller, Poet of Freedom, Book I

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Table of Contents, Volume I (PDF)

Foreword, by Helga Zepp LaRouche

Translator's Preface

Don Carlos, Infante of Spain

Letters on Don Carlos

Theater Considered As A Moral Institution

On the Aesthetical Education of Man, In a Series of Letters

Poems (partial list)

Archimedes and The Student

Genius

Hope

Human Knowledge

Naenia

Ode to Joy

The Division of the World

The Power of Song

Words of Delusion

Words of Faith

The Ghost Seer.

Friedrich Schiller, Poet of Freedom, Book II

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Foreword

Reflections on Schiller and Goethe, by Helga Zepp LaRouche

Poems (partial list)

Pegasus in Yoke

The Maiden From Afar

The Song of the Bell

Drama:

Wilhelm Tell. (book contains entire play.) “The Ruetli Oath”

The Parasite, or, The Art of Self-Advancement

History:

What Is, and to What End Do We Study, Universal History?

The Legislation of Lycurgus and Solon

The Mission of Moses

The Jesuit Government in Paraguay
Aesthetics:

On Grace and Dignity (PDF)

On Matthisson’s Poems

On Bürger's Poems

Of the Aestetic Estimation of Magnitude
From the Aesthetical Lectures 1792-93
Kallias, or, On the Beautiful

Wilhelm von Humboldt: On Schiller and the Course of His Spiritual Development.

Friedrich Schiller, Poet of Freedom, Book III

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Table of Contents, Volume III (PDF)

Foreword by Helga Zepp LaRouche

Introduction, by William F. Wertz, Jr., "Brief Is The Pain, The Joy Shall Be Eterne"

Poems

Amalia

Friendship

Group from Tartarus

Genius

The Antique to the Northern Wanderer

The Singers of Antiquity

The Diver

The Antiques at Paris

The Glove

The Ring of Polycrates

The German Muse

Longing

Cassandra

Drama:

The Virgin of Orleans (PDF, 1.29 MB)

Homage to the Arts

History:

Introduction to The History of the Revolt of the United Netherlands Against Spanish Rule

Aesthetics and Philosophy:

Love, Virtue, Friendship

The Philosophical Letters

On the Pathetic

On the Sublime

Thoughts Concerning the Use of the Common and Base in Art

On the Necessary Limits in the Use of Beautiful Forms

On Naïve and Sentimental Poetry

On the Moral Use of Aesthetic Manners

On Epic and Dramatic Poetry.

Friedrich Schiller, Poet of Freedom, Book IV

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Foreword by Helga Zepp-LaRouche

Memorial: Marianna Wertz: The Beautiful and the Sublime

A Translator on the Poems

“The Artists” and “Shakespeare's Shade”: Reviving Classical Poetry Recitation, by Marianna Wertz, Vice-President, Schiller Institute, U.S.A.

Poems

The Artists

The Pledge

The Walk

The Count of Hapsburg

The Dance

Shakespeare’s Shade

Fortune

Waiting

Singer's Farewell

Drama:

Mary Stuart

Historical Lectures:

Some Thoughts on the first Human Society Following the Guiding Thread of the Mosaic Documents—Transition of Man to Freedom and Humanity

Early Writings:

Philosophy of Physiology (1779) (entire essay in book) excerpts

Aesthetical Essays:
On the Reason Why We Take Pleasure in Tragic Subjects
On Tragic Art
On The Employment of the Chorus in Tragedy



Other Writings of Friedrich Schiller:

Of the Sublime ~ Toward the Further Elaboration of Some Kantian Ideas

The Lawfulness of History

(Poem) Melancholy ~ to Laura

 

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EnglishTranslations of Works
by
Other Authors

W. von Humboldt
On Schiller and the Course of His Spiritual Devolopment
Essays on The Greeks

Johannes Kepler
The Science of the Harmony of the World (1619) Preface to Book I

Heinrich Heine
Young Tom-Cat Club for Poetry-Music
Ascension
Belshazzar
Electoral Asses

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
On Wisdom
Society and Economy
Meditations on Cognition, Truth and Ideas
On the Establishment of a Society in Germany for the Promotion of the Arts and Sciences
Two Papers on the Catenary Curve and Logarithmic Curve

Nicholas of Cusa
On the Quadrature Of the Circle
On Searching for God
On The Peace of Faith
The Hidden God

Jasper Hopkins' Translations Page

Moses Mendelssohn
The Life of Socrates
The Phaedon (partial text, reprinted from FIDELIO)
Mendelssohn's Phaedon, Or On TheDeath of Socrates

Solon of Athens
The Constitutional Order

Plato
Parmenides
Symposium
The Sophist
Theaetetus (Short Excerpt)
Timaeus

Alexander Pushkin
Ptichka
Uznik
“Vo glubine sibirskikh rud...”

Vladimir I. Vernadsky
On the Conditions of the Appearance of Life on Earth (speech, 1931)

 

Louis XI
The Rosebush of War



Translations in Spanish, French, Italian are in progress. (Please check back soon.)