... stance, which leads to his wholesale rejection of practically all previous Eichendorff scholarship and to his often reiterated implication that he is the only one who can speak with authority on the sub- ject. The only critics to whom Radner refers by name-without, however, giving...

... & Ruprecht, 1965. 303 pp. DM 19.80. The instances when a first-rate literary scholar and a fine creative writer celebrate an encounter in the pages of an important study are relatively infrequent. Such, however, is the case with Oskar Seidlin’s Versuche iiber Eichendorff, and this poses...

... STARR University of Florida Eichmdorff Heute: Stimmen der Fmschung mit kner Bibliograbhie. Edited by PAULST~KLEIN. Miinchen : Bayerischer Schulbuch-Verlag, 1960. Pp. 329. $6.50. The commemoration in 1957 of the centennial of Joseph von Eichendorff’s death fostered...

...John T. Hamilton Literary history's persistent attempts to locate the work of Joseph von Eichendorff within German Romanticism aim at a stabilization that contradicts the very dynamism associated with this movement. A study of Eichendorff's exemplary novella Das Marmorbild ( The Marble Statue...

...Franz Karl Mohr Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 THE INFLUENCE OF EICHENDORFF’S “AHNUNG UND GEGENWART” ON POE’S “MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH” By FRANZKARL MOHR The year 1949 marks the hundredth anniversary...

...Lawrence R. Radner Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 THE GARDEN SYMBOL IN AHNUNG UND GEGENWART By LAWRENCER. RADNER Eichendorff criticism of the past few years reveals a growing in- terest in the symbolic nature of the poet’s works...

... audience. Because he holds it to be axiomatic that everything Eichendorff ever wrote’ has a mysterious and recondite significance, he again and again “reveals” the patently obvious. He is so fond of the notion of “insinuation” that he uses it even when something is perfectly explicit...

... Eichmdorff Heute: Stimmen der Fmschung mit kner Bibliograbhie. Edited by PAULST~KLEIN. Miinchen : Bayerischer Schulbuch-Verlag, 1960. Pp. 329. $6.50. The commemoration in 1957 of the centennial of Joseph von Eichendorff’s death fostered (as is traditional) a considerable increase...

... stance, which leads to his wholesale rejection of practically all previous Eichendorff scholarship and to his often reiterated implication that he is the only one who can speak with authority on the sub- ject. The only critics to whom Radner refers by name-without, however, giving...

... linden and Ich sua S;f eime stehe) ; the glorious hymn Ein feste Burg; the poignant Volkslied Ich hort’ kn Sichlkn rawchen; a dozen and a half of Goethe’s radiant lyrics ; vari- colored romantic songs (Eichendorff’s Sehlrsucht, Heine’s Ein Fichtenbuum steht a’ttsam) ; Holderlin’s stark beauty...

... linden and Ich sua S;f eime stehe) ; the glorious hymn Ein feste Burg; the poignant Volkslied Ich hort’ kn Sichlkn rawchen; a dozen and a half of Goethe’s radiant lyrics ; vari- colored romantic songs (Eichendorff’s Sehlrsucht, Heine’s Ein Fichtenbuum steht a’ttsam) ; Holderlin’s stark beauty...

... der Tiefe, Heine’s dramatic Belsatzer, and Eichendorff’s exhilarating Wem Gotf will rechte Gunst enu&eB. Have our tastes so changed that we choose only two poems of Werfel (Penguin has only one) ? Must we still include Dar Lied von der Clocker Would Giinderode, Hauff, Henvegh, Lorm...

...Paul Michael Lützeler Kontje also has astute and detailed passages about the Romantics, especially Friedrich Schlegel and Joseph von Eichendorff. They insisted on federal structures in any future political bodies in Germany and Europe. As Kontje shows, the same can be said about Gottfried Keller...

... poetics—say, by such notions as “escapism”—not only do we belittle the scholarly and nonescapist aspect of Romantic authors as diverse as Sir Walter Scott, Ludwig Uhland, Joseph von Eichendorff, and Prosper Mérimée, but we also marginalize their connections and continuities with learned endeavors...

... Eichendorff on the Catholic side, some historiographers would not instrumentalize God or Providence to imagine the inner and necessary coherence as possible justi cation for the German people s pride in their innate world domination. 24 The mood swings between desperate mourning and expansionist pride seem...

... philosoph- ical outlook was not orthodox. But that did not keep them from acknowledging that his works otherwise contained much that was beautiful, a conclusion agreed upon by original Catholics like Joseph von Eichendorff and Adam Muller as well as by Romantic converts like Friedrich...

..., particularly as Eichendorff’s similar sequence is treated in detail (p. 134). Between 1830 and 1846 the loose, arranged cycle forms of the 1820’s underwent a transition which led to a conscious, established art form. Lenau, Droste-Hulshoff, Keller, Hebbel, and Storm, not to mention the lesser...

... Village” he no longer offers such lacunae. He is, to borrow Adorno’s felicitous characterization of Joseph von Eichendorff, “not a poet of the homeland but a poet of homesickness He does not cel- ebrate a glorious national past or proclaim the need to return to it; he creates, through...

...) The Romantic address to Nature can enshrine perfect poems such as Eichendorff’s “Sehnsucht” or Goethe’s “An den Mond,” but “their foriii as expression is more than a hundred years old”! (2) The excessive use of similes introduced with “as” and “like” weakens (through epic and journalistic elements...

... be simply replaced by “deutsch” (152) ; the explanation of Kleist’s death or of Holder- lin’s insanity, or of “Romantic” tuberculosis (168 f To say that all of Eichendorff’s poetry depends on the feeling that the world of nature is asleep until the poet’s magic makes it vocal (218) is an over...