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What was the German reaction to classicism?

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In German literature the classical stream was deflected in the last quarter of the 18th cent. by the romantic period of Sturm und Drang , but it was revived later in the century when Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich von Schiller wrote classical drama.

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