.... FRANCISLEE UTLEY Ohio State University Eduard Morike. By GERHARDSTORZ. Stuttgart: Ernst Klett, 1967. 408 pp. DM 30. For more than half a century after his death, Eduard Morike was known as a minor lyric poet and regional idylist to whom only one important scholar had devoted his...

...Rudolf D. Schier Copyright © 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 NATURAL OBJECTS AND THE IMAGINATION MORIKES VIEW OF POETIC LANGUAGE By RUDOLFD. SCHIER Sie stiegen Arm in Arm uber den Graben an der StraBe und so...

... something to an old Kittredgean, and his challenge to the interpreters of the two great poems, TroiZus and Can- terbury Tales, is audacious and meant to keep us arguing. FRANCISLEE UTLEY Ohio State University Eduard Morike. By GERHARDSTORZ...

...James Rolleston THE LEGACY OF IDEALISM SCHILLER, MORIKE AND BIEDERMEIER CULTURE By JAMES ROLLESTON Friedrich Schiller and Eduard Miirike are not linked by any obvious biographical or literary...

... als Idyll bezeichnet, so gewahrt er damit nur einen Anhaltspunkt, nicht eine endgultige Feststellung, denn dichterische Selbstdefinition darf nicht kritiklos von der Wissenschaft ubernommen werden. So ist Morikes “Wald- idylle” bestimmt kein Idyll, denn als solches kann trotz...

... to the action of the novel, essentially ignor- ing its thematic bearing on the whole work. Similar tendencies are evident in the treatment of some of Morike’s later work. Die Hand der Jexerte is seen as an evocation of the Oriental atmos- phere of Goethe’s Indian poems and of the Song of Solomon...

... even Morike and Rilke, not to mention Opitz, Hofmanns- waldau and Spee, are books with seven seals. Be that as it may, Closs’s treatment of the baroque lyric is the best we have yet seen anywhere. Ten characteristics seem to stand out in his study of it. The baroque lyricist 1...

... (Hyperions Schicksalslied) ; Lenau’s melancholy Bitte; Morike’s simple sustained Gebet ; Meyer’s sculptured Romi- scher Brurznen; Rilke’s haunting sonnet Nur wer die La’er schon hob; all are in both collections. And there are some pleasing surprises. The Heath An- thology offers Fleming‘s...

... (Hyperions Schicksalslied) ; Lenau’s melancholy Bitte; Morike’s simple sustained Gebet ; Meyer’s sculptured Romi- scher Brurznen; Rilke’s haunting sonnet Nur wer die La’er schon hob; all are in both collections. And there are some pleasing surprises. The Heath An- thology offers Fleming‘s...

... Franz Renk Sommerfeld 283 ables him to become acquainted with Jeremias Gotthelf‘s prose. A highly suc- cessful recent translation of Morike’s Mozart on His Way to Prague went out of print soon after publication. The inclusion...

... feasible to break down the strictly literary barriers which the book sets up and to consider the musical settings of the more important lyrics, too, at least in an appendix. For many laymen it has become extremely difficult to think of almost any famous lyric of Goethe, Heine, or Morike...

... ables him to become acquainted with Jeremias Gotthelf‘s prose. A highly suc- cessful recent translation of Morike’s Mozart on His Way to Prague went out of print soon after publication. The inclusion of that masterpiece in the present collection is, therefore, no mere duplication of labor...

..., and the Petites Misires de la vie conjugate, since they are primarily “humorous,” there seems to be somewhat less justification for omitting the Mhmoires de dew jeunes morikes and particularly the Lys duns la Vallhe. How- ever, in view of the general purpose of Professor Atkinson’s work we may...

... dargestellt. Der Liiwenanteil des verfugbaren Raums, mit 70 Seiten fast ein Siebentel, fallt erwartungsgemiill an Goethe. Nachst ihm wurden Holderlin (37 S Schiller (22 S Brentano (21 S Morike (18 S Novalis und Rilke (je 17 S.) und George (14 S.) am ausgiebigsten berucksichtigt. Die...

... BewuBtsein seiner kunstlerischen Sendung. Klopstock’s oft neglected essays on poetry are drawn upon as signifi- cant contributions to the understanding of poetic values. Then Closs examines, often in minute detail, the free rhythmic poems of Goethe, Holderlin, Novalis, Tieck, Heine, Morike...

... for a communicative rather than a hermetic style (this negates the second of the three virtues listed above); and his use of old-fashioned rhymed stanzas (which seems not to disturb Storz when he alludes to certain poems by Goethe, Eichendorff, and Morike). Kightly observing that Heine’s polit- ical...

.... Mendelssohn-Bartholdi, Hebel, H. v. Kleist, Morike, R. Wagner, G. Keller, Storm, Fontane, etc.; in cultural history: Herder, G. Freytag, Riehl, Burckhardt, K. Hillebrand, Gregorovius, etc. ; in history of art : Durer, Winckelmann, Heinse, Lessing, Goethe, Justi, Wormann, Wolfflin, etc...

... (etc, 11 stanzas) In later times, illustrations are much more rare. Indeed, the trisyllabic foot seems to disappear altogether in modern poets. Goethe’s Wechsel: Auf Kieseln im Bache da lieg’ ich, wie helle! (etc., 12 lines) Eduard Morike...

... of Federigo or the heart in the story of Guiscardo and Sigismonda, and the unconsciously created symbol (Symbolischup- funs) of the latter. Ploughing somewhat deeper into the relation be- tween symbols and the demonic as an example of the unconscious, for which he uses Buchner’s Lenz, Morike’s Mozart...

... . . . or the song of a nightingale in a Hampstead garden impels Keats to write his great ode, or a glance into a dictionary inspires a ballad, as in the case of Morike who in 1868 wrote to Schwind, how once, thirty years previously, he had by chance come upon an old German woman’s name “Rohtraut...