High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Xenien was the title which Roman poet Martial applied to a collection of his poems which were to accompany his presents. Later, Goethe called a collection of distichs, which he wrote together with Schiller, the Xenien, in which the two friends avenged themselves on opposing critics. They were first published in the Musenalmanach. Goethe's share in the Xenien may be briefly dismissed. The Xenien were prompted by the indifference and animosity of contemporary criticism, and its disregard for what the two poets regarded as the higher interests of German poetry. The Xenien succeeded as a retaliation on the critics, but the masterpieces which followed them proved in the long run much more effective weapons against the prevailing mediocrity.

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