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

It was in the heart of the Storm and Stress; it was the time of 'Götz' and 'Mahomet' and the 'Wandering Jew' and 'Werther' and 'Prometheus.'

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 by Various

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

The virtuosos of personality, the strange Rococo original types, were the forbears of the literary Storm and Stress writers, the artistic reformers, the big and little demagogues.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 08 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Various

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

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