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The Sharing of the Earth

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Poem details

The Sharing of the Earth

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The Sharing of the Earth

Poet(s)

Schiller, Friedrich

Credits

Translator

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward

Metadata research and editing

DVPP Project Team

Source

Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 52:323, 298, September 1842.

First line

“Take the world,” cried the God from his heaven

Original language

German

Related poems

Linked as a series in non-consecutive issues

Notes and attribution research

Included in the unsigned Poems and Ballads of Schiller. No. I (287-98) (SK). Translator attribution: Eileen M. Curran, Additions to, Corrections of, and Reflections on ‘The Wellesley Index,’ Victorian Periodicals Review, vol. 29, no. 4, Winter 1996, pp. 288-305 (AC).

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 10661

XML

Alison Chapman (ed.) and the DVPP team, “The Sharing of the Earth,” Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project, Edition 0.98.11beta , University of Victoria, 7th May 2025, https://dvpp.uvic.ca/blackwoods/1842/pom_10661_the_sharing_of_the_earth.html.

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