Divide et Impera

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Divide et Impera

Poet(s)

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

Credits

Translator

Blackie, John Stuart

Metadata research and editing

DVPP Project Team

Source

Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 130:794, 787, December 1881.

First line

Divide and rule, the politician cries

Original language

German

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Related poems

Linked as a series in the same issue

Knowledge of Men
Lies
Life the School of Manhood
Patience
Rule of Life
The Wisdom of Life
Good Society
Quarrels
Self-Knowledge
The Golden Age
Envy
Monuments
Prophets
Slander
The World and How to Use It
Utopia
Youth
God. Innate Ideas
Perversity
Secrecy
Solitude and Society
The Infinite
To-day
Toleration
Freedom
God
Obedience
Originality
The Divine Procedure
Genus Irritabile Vatum
Limits of Humanity
The Vocation of Man

Notes and attribution research

Part of a group of translations under the general title Words of Wisdom from Goethe by J. S. B. (pp. 785-792) (KF). Blackie published his translations in The Wisdom of Goethe, W. Blackwood and Sons, 1883 (AC).

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Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 9112

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Divide et Impera