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...to a young novelist, Levin Schücking (1814–83), for whom, despite their difference in age, she developed a deep, suppressed, and unreciprocated passion. Her first collection of poetry, Gedichte (1838; “Poems”), included poems of a deeply religious nature. Between 1829 and 1839 she wrote a cycle of religious poems, Das geistliche Jahr (1851; “The...
After working as an accountant in a bank in Amsterdam (1831–39), Freiligrath abandoned commerce for literature with the success of his first poems, the Romantic Gedichte (1838; “Poems”). Influenced by Victor Hugo, these early poems are characterized by vividly imaginative and evocative exotic scenes and technical virtuosity; they won him a pension from the Prussian king...
...(1811; “Travel Shadows: Of the Shadow Player Luchs”), is characterized by a typically Romantic mixture of poetry and prose, seriousness and humour. The first collection of his Gedichte (“Poems”) in 1826 reveals an uncharacteristic melancholy and mystic longing for death. The influence of the Volkslied (“folk song”) is also clear in this...
Lenau’s fame rests predominantly on his shorter lyrical poems. These early poems, which were published in Gedichte (1832; “Poems”) and Neuere Gedichte (1838; “Newer Poems”), demonstrate close ties to the Weltschmerz (“World Pain”) mood of the Romantic period and reveal a personal, almost religious relationship to nature. His later poems,...
Matthisson’s poems, which brought him great popularity in his time, were published as Gedichte in 1787; their melodious verse exhibits a vigour and warmth combined with delicacy and style. His poem “Adelaide” was set to music as a song by Beethoven. A complete, eight-volume edition of his works, Schriften, was published in 1825–29.
...models the late Romantics and Eduard Mörike, who, along with Gottfried Keller, Paul von Heyse, and the Russian writer Ivan Turgenev, was his friend and correspondent. Storm’s early lyrics (Gedichte, 1852; “Poems”) are songlike and characterized by their simplicity and beauty of form. Their main themes are love, nature, and an intense love of homeland.
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