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The town of Jena is not many miles from Weimar, and at this time Goethe and Schiller were fast friends, and their opinion of the Romantics is to be seen in the letters they exchanged. Goethe laughs at them half scornfully and straightforward Schiller is vexed at their posturing. The former was so greatly admired by the inner ring that the latter was in danger of being undervalued.
Goethe occasionally came to Jena to visit Schiller, but generally when the Romantics wished to see the Object of their devotion they pilgrimaged along the avenue Of plum trees that led to Weimar and there offered him the incense of their adulation. Frederick the divine, writes Dorothea Veit Of F.
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