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The relation of this to Lessing, both in the "Laokoon" and in the "Dramaturgie" is at once apparent.

Tieck's letters to Wackenroder show that he was reading the Laokoon at this time, but even if a preoccupation with Lessing were not easily postulable, the matter of the paper itself will show a distinct recrudescence of Lessing's ideas.

Here he read Spinoza and the Church Fathers, studied �sthetics and Winckelmann's newly issued 'History of Art,' wrote his 'Minna von Barnhelm,' and the 'Laokoon.'

To prove his efficiency for the post, Lessing had published his 'Laokoon.'

The 'Laokoon' strove to expose the radical error of this idea, as its second title, 'or the boundaries of Poetry and Painting,' proves.