The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05
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Philosophical essays, folk songs, fairy tales and imaginative fiction share the pages of this English collection of German writing. Its contents bring together Fichte, Schelling and Schleiermacher with the Grimm brothers and poets including Uhland and Joseph von Eichendorff. The opening essay considers the Enlightenment's confidence in reason and the competing claims of feeling, faith and organic growth, providing a framework for the literary selections that follow.
Eichendorff's From the Life of a Good-for-nothing contributes a more personal voice. In the passage provided, a narrator watches a torchlit castle serenade from a tree, admires a woman on a balcony and broods over what he believes her circumstances mean for him. Morning light over the Danube renews his desire to travel. The volume offers readers a way to compare German Romantic thought with its expression in music, landscape, longing and storytelling.
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- Joseph von Eichendorff
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