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The Chief End of Man

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The Chief End of Man

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The Chief End of Man

Poet(s)

Schiller, Friedrich

Credits

Translator

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward

Metadata research and editing

DVPP Project Team

Source

Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 53:329, 311, March 1843.

First line

What the chief end of Man?—Behold yon tree

Original language

German

Document status

Generated: The file was automatically generated from metadata in the project metadata database.

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Notes and attribution research

Poem included under the general title Poems and Ballads of Schiller. No. VI (302-313). Translator is unsigned; attribution from Curran Index. (KF2)

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 10006

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Alison Chapman (ed.) and the DVPP team, “The Chief End of Man,” Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project, Edition 0.98.9beta, University of Victoria, 18th March 2024, https://dvpp.uvic.ca/blackwoods/1843/pom_10006_the_chief_end_of_man.html.

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