Schiller's "the naive" and "the sentimental"
 

McLane: "[Friedrich?] Schiller famously distinguished between 'the naive' and 'the sentimental,' with moderns fated to be sentimental"
 
they can't be naive because they "were conscious, divided, reflective, [...] required to produce an art of secondary process"

> from Maureen N. McLane's My Poets (2012)

> tagged with #writing, #art, #concept, #consciousness

> created Feb 25, 2025 at 8:01:34 AM


> part of unfinished everything


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