Storm and Stress

American  

noun

1. Sturm und Drang.

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Etymology

Origin of Storm and Stress

First recorded in 1850–55

Example Sentences

Goethe was thirty-seven when, in 1786, he turned his back upon the Storm and Stress, and in Italy sought and gained a new and saner vision of the world.

From Essays on Scandinavian Literature by Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth

His Faust of the Storm and Stress period is essentially a Romanticist.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. by Francke, Kuno

He himself said of the greatest of his Storm and Stress dramas that he had attempted to portray humanity before he really knew humanity.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 03 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno

It was mainly in 1780—his last year in the Karlschule—that Schiller wrote The Robbers, altogether the loudest explosion of the Storm and Stress.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 03 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno

Hitherto he had written with his eye on the stage, and in the savage spirit of the Storm and Stress.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 03 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno