Laocoon : An essay upon the limits of painting and poetry. With remarks illustrative of various points in the history of ancient art.

Name: Laocoon : An essay upon the limits of painting and poetry. With remarks illustrative of various points in the history of ancient art.
Author: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

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Translation of: Laokoon.

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Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Original publisher

Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1873.

Credits

Richard Tonsing, Tim Lindell, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Release date

2024-02-29

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Aesthetics -- Early works to 1800 Agesander. Laocoön group

About the author

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

1729–1781

A bold Enlightenment writer who helped reshape German literature, he is best known for sharp drama, literary criticism, and a lasting defense of religious tolerance in Nathan the Wise.

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