Types of Weltschmerz in German Poetry
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Types of Weltschmerz in German Poetry is by Wilhelm Alfred Braun. The note says the author of this essay has attempted to make, as he himself phrases it, a modest contribution to the natural history of Weltschmerz. The note says the word corresponds to a fairly definite range of psychical reactions which are of great interest in modern poetry, especially German poetry.
The text sorts poets by type: Hölderlin is the ardent Hellenic idealist, Lenau gives expression to all the pathos of Weltschmerz, Heine is its satirist, the misanthrope, and in Raabe there is even a pessimistic humorist. The text says that, regarded as a psychological process, Lenau's Weltschmerz stands midway between that of Hölderlin and Heine. Heine, having become conscious of his melancholy, mercilessly applies the lash of self-irony and finds in it the antidote for his Weltschmerz.
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- Wilhelm Alfred Braun
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