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...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...
...Poet Lenau's Voyage to America" is an exceedingly interesting account of this Austrian poet, almost unknown in this country. Born in Hungary, he entered the University of Vienna, where he stood well in his studies, but was not inclined towards any one of them. In later years a restless desire for new scenery drove him to America, where he hoped to find his Elysium. How he found it, and his impression of this country, is well shown in his letters home, where he describes, in terms that would be rather humorous were there not a grain of truth...
Modern Language Conference. A small reform in French spelling. Professor Cohn.- Nicolaus Lenau's visit to America. Mr. E. Emerson.- The sources of the 'Chevalier au Lyon' of Chretein de Troyes. Mr. C. H. C. Wright. Sever...
FEBRUARY 23. MONDAYModern Language Conference. A small reform in French spelling. Professor Cohn.- Nicolaus Lenau's visit to America. Mr. E. Emerson.- The sources of the 'Chevalier au Lyon' of Chretein de Troyes. Mr. C. H. C. Wright. Sever...