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Mörike

American  
[-ri-kuh] / ˈmœ rɪ kə /

noun

  1. Eduard 1804–75, German poet.


Mörike British  
/ ˈmøːrɪkə /

noun

  1. Eduard (ˈeːduart). 1804–75, German poet, noted for his lyrics, such as On a Winter's Morning before Sunrise and At Midnight

"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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Mörike, a poised young man with the beardish scruff of a doctoral student, was waiting in a hallway near the museum entrance.

From New York Times Mar. 4, 2021

“There was a feeling of relief that this piece was finally repatriated,” Mörike, the curator, told me.

From New York Times Mar. 4, 2021

Mörike had read my stories on smugglers and corruption in Afghanistan.

From New York Times Mar. 4, 2021

Of the literary figures Sebald writes on here—Johann Peter Hebel, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Eduard Mörike, Gottfried Keller, and Robert Walser—only Rousseau and Walser are likely to be well-known to Anglophone readers.

From Slate Feb. 5, 2014

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

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