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Ein Vade Mecum für den Herrn Samuel Gotthold Lange

polemic by Lessing

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  • Gotthold Lessing, detail of an oil painting by Georg May, 1768; in the Gleimhaus, Halberstadt, Ger.
    In Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: Rising reputation as dramatist and critic.

    His scintillating and biting polemic Ein Vade Mecum für den Herrn Samuel Gotthold Lange (1754) was directed against the carelessly corrupt translations of the poetry of Horace by the arrogant scholar S.G. Lange, whose literary reputation was demolished by Lessing’s attack. From this point on, Lessing was justly feared as…

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