A Handbook of German LiteratureG. Bell and sons, 1895 - 157 pages |
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... possessed in themselves the germ of that poetic power out of which a great literature has grown . For young nations bear in themselves the " epische Stoff " they live the heroic poems which later generations write . Mythology . In the ...
... possessed in themselves the germ of that poetic power out of which a great literature has grown . For young nations bear in themselves the " epische Stoff " they live the heroic poems which later generations write . Mythology . In the ...
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... possessing undoubted poetical genius , Gottfried seems to have been carried away by his own proficiency in word - painting , by love of conceits , and , in short , by the substitution of artificiality for nature . His poem , Tristan und ...
... possessing undoubted poetical genius , Gottfried seems to have been carried away by his own proficiency in word - painting , by love of conceits , and , in short , by the substitution of artificiality for nature . His poem , Tristan und ...
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... possessed nothing of his own until late in life , when the Emperor Frederick II . granted him a small freehold , which happy event caused him , as usual , to break forth into song- " I have a fief ! Hearken all the world , I have a fief ...
... possessed nothing of his own until late in life , when the Emperor Frederick II . granted him a small freehold , which happy event caused him , as usual , to break forth into song- " I have a fief ! Hearken all the world , I have a fief ...
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... possessed a forcible style , varied to the varying occasion , and unfailing fertility in figure . As a hymn - writer , of such hymns as " Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott , " his claim to admiration is undoubted ; indeed he is not only the ...
... possessed a forcible style , varied to the varying occasion , and unfailing fertility in figure . As a hymn - writer , of such hymns as " Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott , " his claim to admiration is undoubted ; indeed he is not only the ...
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... possessed wonderful command of language , and is one of the greatest writers of the period . Satire , comedy , jokes of all kinds , are heaped together in his unwieldy poems , but the stamp of genius is on the unruly mass , and redeems ...
... possessed wonderful command of language , and is one of the greatest writers of the period . Satire , comedy , jokes of all kinds , are heaped together in his unwieldy poems , but the stamp of genius is on the unruly mass , and redeems ...
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