Wolfram von Eschenbach
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Wolfram von Eschenbach wrote the version of the Quest of the Holy Grail which inspired Wagner's "Parsifal" and which is morally the most exalted epical form which that legend ever received.
From A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music by Henry Edward Krehbiel
It soon became known in Germany, where, in the hands of Gottfried von Strassburg, and especially of Wolfram von Eschenbach, it assumed its most perfect and popular form.
From Legends of the Middle Ages Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber
But these knights of Wolfram von Eschenbach have no more this mission than they have the politico-military missions, missions of a Rüdger or a Roland.
From Euphorion Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance - Vol. II by Vernon Lee
Wolfram von Eschenbach, indeed, has divided his Parzival into three books, of Simplicity, Doubt, and Healing, which has led Gervinus to trace a not altogether fanciful analogy between that poem and the Divina Commedia.
From Among My Books Second Series by James Russell Lowell
In the same way Robert de Borron, Chretien de Troyes, Wolfram von Eschenbach, are all referred to as sources without any justification in fact.
From From Ritual to Romance by Jessie Laidlay Weston
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