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The purpose used to be to supply the particular that means (or at the very least one which means) of the German textual content, therefore supplying the reader with a blueprint of the unique poem as a foundation for the following appreciation of the opposite features that raise it to a excessive literary airplane. desk of Contents DOVER BOOKS ON LANGUAGE identify web page Copyright web page Foreword creation Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Friedrich von Schiller Friedrich von Schiller Friedrich Hölderlin Friedrich Hölderlin Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg) Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg) Ludwig Tieck Ludwig Tieck Clemens Brentano Clemens Brentano Adelbert von Chamisso Adelbert von Chamisso Ludwig Uhland Ludwig Uhland Joseph von Eichendorff Joseph von Eichendorff Friedrich Rückert Friedrich Rückert August von Platen August von Platen Annette von Droste-Hülshoff Annette von Droste-Hülshoff Heinrich Heine Heinrich Heine Nikolaus Lenau Nikolaus Lenau Eduard Mörike Eduard Mörike Friedrich Hebbel Friedrich Hebbel Theodor hurricane Theodor typhoon Klaus Groth Klaus Groth Gottfried Keller Gottfried Keller Theodor Fontane Theodor Fontane Conrad Ferdinand Meyer Conrad Ferdinand Meyer Detlev von Liliencron Detlev von Liliencron Friedrich Nietzsche Friedrich Nietzsche Alphabetical checklist of German Titles Alphabetical record of German First strains A CATALOG OF chosen DOVER BOOKS IN ALL FIELDS OF curiosity advent The Romantic influence on German Lyric Poetry Lyric poetry has been one of many German lands’ leader contributions to global literature from earliest occasions onward; however the extraordinary explosion, in volume and caliber, in the course of the 19th century makes that interval the main noteworthy because the medieval minnesingers and Carmina Burana poets. As in England, the beginnings of the turn-of-the-nineteenth-century stream are traceable to the latter eighteenth century. motivated by means of the recent sensitivity of such poets as Klopstock, Claudius and Hölty, and via Herder’s researches into folks track and balladry, Goethe and Schiller spearheaded the hurricane and pressure (Sturm und Drang) circulation (dated approximately 1767—1785),2 with its rejection of Enlightenment (Aufklärung) conventionality, its defiance of authority, its political liberalism, its higher naturalness of expression and its openness to the nonrational facet of human suggestion and adventure. Goethe and Schiller have been additionally the most important representatives of the next Classical interval (Klassik; 1785—1832, the latter yr being an artificially past due one evidently utilized in order to incorporate Goethe’s complete life). during this interval, those poets, stimulated via Greco-Roman literature and talking as “solid” electorate now they'd matured and received worldly place, toned down their protest and observed themselves as legislators of literary perform. this angle gave the more moderen generations whatever to react opposed to of their flip, in part through returning to the beliefs of hurricane and rigidity and adapting them in a clean, own manner.