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

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

The first Fragment was written, as has been said, in the spirit of the Storm and Stress.

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

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

This German expression has been well translated "Storm and Stress."

From Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson by Stevenson, Robert Louis