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Eichendorff

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/ ˈaiçəndɔrf /

noun

  1. Joseph (ˈjoːzɛf), Freiherr von. 1788–1857, German poet and novelist, regarded as one of the greatest German romantic lyricists

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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It’s typical of his approach that his excavation of brain science includes an extended riff about the translation of a brief poem by the 19th-century Prussian writer Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff.

From New York Times Nov. 20, 2019

On this account our best writers of "Novellen" have also been, almost without exception, eminent lyric poets; such were Goethe, Tieck, Eichendorff, Mörike, Keller, Heyse, Theodor Storm and C.F.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. by Francke, Kuno

There is every reason to believe that Eichendorff knew Bretano's "Rheinmärchen" in manuscript form.

From Graf von Loeben and the Legend of Lorelei by Porterfield, Allen Wilson

Eichendorff and Brentano became acquainted in Heidelberg and then in Berlin they were intimate.

From Graf von Loeben and the Legend of Lorelei by Porterfield, Allen Wilson

Apart from Eichendorff, the vital lyric poetry of the third and last phase of Romanticism must be looked for in the Swabian school, which gathered round Uhland.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" by Various

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