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XXX.—GERMAN LITERATURE.
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Xxx.—German Literature.
XXX . —GERMAN LITERATURE . NO . VI .
*. "We Cannot Commence Our Usual Notice ...
* . "We cannot commence our usual notice of the current literature of
Germany without calling the attention of our readers to the feeling of grief which has been lately excited by the death of the veteran
_TJhland , the faithful patriot and eloquent poet , whose writings have been so closely associated with the history of the last half century .
1 / u . dwig Uhland had passed the allotted age of man . One by one the friends of his youth , those who in common with him could
remember the horrors of the French [ Revolution , and had taken t in a long and wearisome political struggle—had been passing
par into a state where there can be no barrier to intellectual - away and no useless longing for national freedom . The sevent pro y-
fifth gress birthday of the aged _j ) oet was celebrated enthusiastically on the 26 th of April 1862 . On the 25 th of the preceding February ,
he attended the funeral of his friend Justinus Kerner ( the tuneful hysician whose dreamy and pathetic verses may be known to the
Eng p lish public through the appropriate musical setting of a modern composer—Herr _[ Robert Schumann ) . And on the subsequent
13 th of November he himself was " gathered to his fathers" after a long and painful illnessat his residence at Tubingen .
, The incidents of the poet ' s life are few and simple in their character . At Tiibingen he was born in 1787 , and to the quiet
retreat of his native city , when overpowered by the political contentions of othershe returned to die . Having studied the law as
a profession , and attained , at an early age to the degree of Doctor , he published a modest volume of ballads in 1804 . But the
full development of his talents awaited the German war of independenceand it was not till 1813 that he published those poems
on Libert , y , which , being inserted in the daily papers , placarded about the streetsand subjected to the enthusiastic interpretation
, of the Illiberal party , soon obtained for him so great a popularity . In these poems TJhland _catight and re-echoed the spirit of his time ,.
The lines were simple and heartfelt , and the turn of the phrases unstudied ; for in the " awakening" ( as it was called ) of the
German people , even the love of artistic skill and the taste for philosophical acumen were forgotten in common sympathy for the
shame and honour , the success or the misery of the Fatherland . vain It was to impossible fill himself , — with as _G- youthful othe remarked enthusiasm , when in he old endeavoured age —it was in
, hopeless to attempt to write military songs , sitting in one quiet room . But to Uhland , as to Theodore Korner , Stagemann ,
Schenkendorf , and Fouque , it was as if he was writing in the bivouac of
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1863, page 198, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051863/page/54/
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