Which German poet is the author of the "Song of the Bell"?

Friedrich Schiller was born on 10 November 1759 in Marbach am Neckar, a small town in the state of Baden-Württemberg and he died on 09 May 1805 in Weimar. His poems, ballads and plays (inter alia "Wilhelm Tell") belong to the most famous and estimated treasures of German literature. Until today they represent a key element of the curriculum of many schools in Germany. Together with his contemporary and friend Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832) he considerably shaped the literary epoch of Weimar Classicism.

The "Song of the Bell" (German: "Das Lied von der Glocke", also translated as "The Lay of the Bell") is a poem that he published in 1798. It is one of the most famous poems of German literature and with 430 lines also one of the longest. In it, Schiller combines a knowledgeable technical description of a bell founding with points of view and comments on human life, its possibilities and risks.