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GERMAN LITERATURE. 201
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*. "We Cannot Commence Our Usual Notice ...
and liad manifested an overwhelming horror of that cold and * conventi 6 classical onal " system Theodore which Mtindt had in been his " condemned Literature of under the Present the term "* , *
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stifling * one another , became only stimulated in this case to a richer and more luxuriant mutual growth . of Uhland
but The the comic style elem is always ent is harmonious entirel Some y of wanting , the and finest * occasionall in the of poems his y ballads characterized ( such , by vivid word-painting . Castle bthe and the
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familiar _classes accesse first style . the _SjDeaking class of fables generall or y , chivalric , they may tales be , in divided which into the skill two
and of the maintaining poet ; is , shown the in interest keeping throug the thread hout , and of the secondl narr y , ative the clear class h moral lesson
or of thoug deep htful religious or mystical sentiment ballads " , The is intended Gallant in which Comrade to some be conveyed hi " g the " . Midni Of the ht , ¦> first class we instance g
Visitor , " and may the " Two Sisters , " and of the second , , the " Garland , " the " Innkeeper ' s Daughter / ' " Faithful Walter and the "— Monk the " and Sunken the
Shep Crown herd , " . t " he " Interming Lost Church led , with " the these " Nun we , " have numerous " sonnets , reliious iecesand descriptions of natural scenery—such as the
" Captive gp to the , Lark , " " To my native Valley , " the " Wanderer , " and others
Uhland In delicat abound . e fragment It would s and be possible poetic to beauties cull innumerable the writings quota of
tions did only our . limits permit , but we will content ourselves with one which illustrates the character of the writer .
THE POET ' S FATE . Ah , fate ! thy language is too Tis plain but , dreams
The D That azzle real bring but is not me end fadeless my in fortune lasting flowers . pain ' ; ; all other gleams
Yet every , grief brings me a song again . Of the new stories which have been lately published in Germany
we Solger may ; f " mention Henriette three Sontag _> : " , " Anton a novel in in America two volumes , " by by Iteinhard Julius
f * Geschiclite " Anton in . der America Literatur " der Seitenstiiok Gegenwart zu . Frey Theodor tag ' s Mundt " Soil und . Haben . "
Aus dem Deutsch Amerikanischen . Leben : 2 Bde . Von Reinhold Solgei \
Bromberg , 1862 .
German Literature. 201
GERMAN LITERATURE . 201
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1863, page 201, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051863/page/57/
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