Graf von Loeben and the Legend of Lorelei eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 57 pages of information about Graf von Loeben and the Legend of Lorelei.

Graf von Loeben and the Legend of Lorelei eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 57 pages of information about Graf von Loeben and the Legend of Lorelei.

[34] An instance of this is seen in Selections from Heine’s
    Poems
, edited by H.S.  White, D.C.  Heath & Co., Boston, 1900,
    p. 182.  Professor White does, to be sure, refer to Strodtmann for
    the details; but Strodtmann does not prove anything.  And in
    Heines Werke in fUenfzehn Teilen, edited by Hermann
    Friedeman, Helene Herrmann.  Erwin Kaliseher.  Raimund Pissin, and
    Veit Valentin, we have the comment by Helene Herrmann, who follows
    Pissin:  “Die Loreleysage, erfunden von Clemens Brentano; vielfach
    von Romantikern gestaltet.  Zwischen Brentanos Romanze und Heines
    Situationsbild steht die Behandlung durch den Grafen Loeben, einen
    unbedeutenden romantischen Dichter.”

[35] The best finished collection of Heine’s letters is the one by
    Hans Daffis, Berlin, 1907, 2 vols.  This collection will, however,
    soon be superseded by Heinrich Heines Briefwechsel, edited
    by Friedrich Hirth, MUenchen and Berlin, 1914.  The first volume
    covers Heine’s life up to 1831.  In neither of these collections is
    either Brentano or Loeben mentioned.  There are 643 pages in
    Hirth’s first volume.

[36] For a discussion of Godwi, see Clemens Brentano:  Ein
    Lebensbild
, by Johannes Baptista Diel and Wilhelm Kreiten,
    Freiburg i.B., 1877, two volumes in one, pp. 104-25.  As to the
    obscurity of Brentano’s work, one sentence (p. 116) is
    significant:  “Godwi spukt heutzutage nur mehr in den KOepfen
    der liberalen Literaturgeschichtsschreiber, denen er einen
    willkommenen Vorwand an die Hand gibt, mit einigen stereotyp
    abgeschriebenen Phrasen den Stab Ueber den phantastischen,
    verschwommenen, unsittlichen u.s.w., u.s.w.  Dichter zu brechen.”

[37] Clemens Brentano:  Godwi oder das steinerne Bild der
    Mutter.  Ein verwilderter.  Roman
.  Herausgegeben und
    eingeleitet von Dr. Anselm Ruest, Berlin, 1906.  Ruest edited the
    work because he thought it was worth reviving.  In this edition,
    the ballad is on pages 507-10.  Bartels (Handbuch, 2d ed., p. 400)
    lists a reprint in 1905, E.A.  Regener, Berlin.

[38] II, 391-93.

[39] For the various references, see Thorn’s Heinrich Heines
    Beziehungen zu Clemens Brentano
. pp. 88-90.  His study is
    especially unsatisfactory in view of the fact that he says (p. 88)
    in this connection:  “Wirklich Neues zu bringen ist uns nicht
    vergOennt, denn selbstverstAendlich haben die Forscher dieses
    dankbare und interessante Objekt schon in der eingehendsten Weise
    untersucht.”  And Thorn’s attempt to show that Heine knew
    Godwi early in life by pointing out similarities between
    poems in it and poems by Heine is about as untenable as argument
    could be, in view of the great number of poets who may have
    influenced Heine in these instances; Thorn himself lists (p. 63)
    BUerger, Fouque, Arnim, E.T.A.  Hoffmann.

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