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So he wrote his famous disquisition, next to Lessing's 'Laokooen' the most thoughtful and the most influential piece of criticism produced anywhere in the eighteenth century, and endeavored to make it as readable as possible.
There remain for consideration, to complete our survey of Schiller's philosophical writings, his short essay on Matthison's poems and his long disquisition upon 'Naive and Sentimental Poetry'. In the review he discusses the subject of landscape poetry, thus touching upon a question that had occupied Lessing in the 'Laokooen'. But instead of arguing like Lessing that detailed description of objects is necessarily out of place in poetry, Schiller defends it as capable in a high degree of giving pleasure.
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