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Laokoön

or La·ok·o·on

[ ley-ok-oh-on ]

noun



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With a Frontispiece of the Laokoon group. 3s. 6d.

With a Frontispiece of the Laokoon group. 3s. 6d.

The relation of this to Lessing, both in the "Laokoon" and in the "Dramaturgie" is at once apparent.

Tieck's letters to Wackenroder show that he was reading the Laokoon at this time, but even if a preoccupation with Lessing were not easily postulable, the matter of the paper itself will show a distinct recrudescence of Lessing's ideas.

Here he read Spinoza and the Church Fathers, studied �sthetics and Winckelmann's newly issued 'History of Art,' wrote his 'Minna von Barnhelm,' and the 'Laokoon.'

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