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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

In August 2018, I received an email from Tobias Mörike, a curator of Islamic Art, introducing himself and the marble.

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

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

Wolf has set to music a quarter of Mörike's poems, he has brought Mörike into his own, and given him one of the first places among German poets.

From Musicians of To-Day by Blaiklock, Mary

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