Eichendorff

/ ˈaiçəndɔrf /

noun

EichendorffJoseph, Freiherr von17881857MGermanWRITING: poetWRITING: novelist Joseph (ˈjoːzɛf), Freiherr von. 1788–1857, German poet and novelist, regarded as one of the greatest German romantic lyricists

Eichendorff was born on the family estate at Lubowitz in Silesia, on March 10th, 1788.

It would be fruitless to catalogue the works of Eichendorff that are no longer read.

With Eichendorff the last great poet of the Romantic School passed away.

Eichendorff looked down upon the rhetorical ideality of Schiller and the symbolic naturalism of Goethe.

Eichendorff was one of the most distinguished of the later members of the German romantic school.

April 19, 2024tortuous

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