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The Ideal and the Actual Life

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The Ideal and the Actual Life

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The Ideal and the Actual Life

Poet(s)

Schiller, Friedrich

Credits

Translator

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward

Metadata research and editing

DVPP Project Team

Source

Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 53:330, 435–438, April 1843.

First line

For ever fair, for ever calm and bright

Original language

German

Related poems

Linked as a series in non-consecutive issues

Notes and attribution research

Poem included under the general title Poems and Ballads of Schiller. No. VII (433-446). Translator is unsigned; attribution from Curran Index. (KAF)

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 10018

XML

Alison Chapman (ed.) and the DVPP team, “The Ideal and the Actual Life,” Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project, Edition 0.98.11beta , University of Victoria, 7th May 2025, https://dvpp.uvic.ca/blackwoods/1843/pom_10018_the_ideal_and_the_actual_life.html.

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