Word: lenau
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...probably during February, on any subject which he may think suitable. It is possible that he will lecture on comparative literature, since a great deal of his study has been in this field. He is the author of "Deutsche Gedichte", "The Treatment of Nature in the Works of Nicholas Lenau", "The Interpretation of Italy During the Last Two Centuries", and many articles and reviews on German and comparative literature...
...movement more productive of melancholy, religious doubt and pessimistie discontent than the Romantic Movement, and nowhere were its tragle results more plainly to be seen than among the minor German poets of the first half of the last century. Of these, Nikolous von Strehienan, better known as Nickolous Lenau, is a typical example. He was one of those unhappy natures for whom existence remains an eternal enigma. With a genius essentially lyrical and subjective, he was unable to raise himself above the tragedy of his own life. "No poet of Northern Europe," says Robertson, "expresses as intensely a Lenau...
...clock this morning in Sever 6, Professor Burkhard will lecture on Lenau and two contemporaries somewhat related in spirit, Eduard Morike and Germany's foremost poetess. Annette von Droste-Hulshoff...