For 10 points, name this German poet of "Ode to Joy," who also wrote the plays The Robbers and William Tell.
In 1795, this man responded in a letter to a friend that he would collaborate on a proposed poetry collection to attack their critics entitled Die Xenien. This man was inspired by the French Revolution to write the philosophical treatise On the Aesthetic Education of Man. This man founded the magazine Thalia, which published a poem he wrote that calls its title subject, in various translations, a "bright spark of (*) divinity" or a "beautiful spark of the gods". He wrote an ode originally dedicated to freedom that refers to its subject as the "daughter of Elysium". In one of his plays, Karl Moor leads a band of outlaws; another of his plays is about a rebellion against a governor named Gessler by a Swiss huntsman. For 10 points, name this German poet of "Ode to Joy," who also wrote the plays The Robbers and William Tell.
In 1795, this man responded in a letter to a friend that he would collaborate on a proposed poetry collection to attack their critics entitled Die Xenien.
Friedrich von Schiller [or Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller]