It was the golden age of German literature, but such geniuses as Goethe, Schiller, Lessing and wieland were not filled with the Christian zeal of earlier poets, and they wrote no hymns.
"The Story of Our Hymns"
Ernest Edwin Ryden
Goethe and wieland bowed before his greatness.
"The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)"
John Holland Rose
403-404, 415-416, 418-425. wieland, ii.
"The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)"
John Holland Rose