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Poems of Schiller - 1st Period

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Poems of Schiller - 1st Period

by Friedrich Schiller

English· 02:03:14· 25 chapters
Poems by the German Classical poet Friedrich von Schiller from his first period (until 1785) in English translations by Edgar A. Bowring et al, including a verse drama of the Classical story of Semele and Zeus. - Summary by Alan Mapstone


Cast list for "Semele":

Juno: Krista Zaleski

Semele, Princess of Thebes: Jenn Broda

Zeus: Larry Wilson

Mercury: Sonia

Stage Directions: Alan Mapstone
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Chapters

  1. Chapter 1

    Hector and Andromache

    02:15
  2. Chapter 2

    Amalia

    01:35
  3. Chapter 3

    A Funeral Fantasie

    05:06
  4. Chapter 4

    Fantasie - To Laura

    04:38
  5. Chapter 5

    To Laura at the Harpsichord

    02:05
  6. Chapter 6

    Group from Tartarus

    01:07
  7. Chapter 7

    Rapture - To Laura

    01:34
  8. Chapter 8

    To Laura (The Mystery of Reminiscence)

    04:10
  9. Chapter 9

    Melancholy - To Laura

    07:52
  10. Chapter 10

    The Infanticide

    08:50
  11. Chapter 11

    The Greatness of the World

    01:53
  12. Chapter 12

    Fortune and Wisdom

    01:18
  13. Chapter 13

    Elegy on the Death of a Young Man

    07:03
  14. Chapter 14

    The Battle

    05:41
  15. Chapter 15

    Rousseau

    01:01
  16. Chapter 16

    Friendship

    05:02
  17. Chapter 17

    Elysium

    02:08
  18. Chapter 18

    The Fugitive

    02:32
  19. Chapter 19

    To Minna

    03:36
  20. Chapter 20

    The Flowers

    02:27
  21. Chapter 21

    The Triumph of Love (A Hymn)

    07:27
  22. Chapter 22

    To a Moralist

    01:38
  23. Chapter 23

    Count Eberhard, the Groaner of Wurtemburg

    04:17
  24. Chapter 24

    To the Spring

    01:13
  25. Chapter 25

    Semele

    36:46