As a playwright and lyric poet, Schiller was the most important author in the German Sturm und Drang movement. Only after it was published anonymously in 1781 did Die Räuber, with its theme of taking from the rich to redress the wrongs done to the dispossessed, attract the attention of a director willing to bring it to the stage. His Der Geisterseher was published in 1788. Wallenstein (1799), the most successful among his many dramas, was translated in part by Samuel Taylor Coleridge as The Piccolomini (1800) and The Death of Wallenstein (1800). Wilhelm Tell (1804) was translated into English as William Tell in 1829. Schiller authored some admirable criticism, especially " Über die ästhetische Erziehung des Menschen in einer Reihe von Briefen" ("On the Aesthetic Education of Man in a Series of Letters," 1795) and "Über naive und sentimentalische Dichtung" ("On Naive and Sentimental Poetry," 1795-1796). He was appreciated for his poetry as well, with the two volumes of Gedichte being issued in 1800-1803.

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