“Wretches, Speak Evil of Me”: Goethe and Schiller’s Xenions (1896 edition) It is never much of a surprise when modern writers engage in petty fights. The insults exchanged between Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner have become cliché; the sub-tweet is almost a literary form of its own. But we expect better from the writers of the past, especially those of the eighteenth century. They were “Grea...