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Title: Types of Weltschmerz in German Poetry
Author : Wilhelm Alfred Braun
Release Date : January 01, 1873
Genre: Literary Criticism,Books,Fiction & Literature,
Pages : * pages
Size : 102 KB

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The author of this essay has attempted to make, as he himself phrases it", a modest contribution to the natural history of Weltschmerz". What goes by that name is no doubt somewhat elusive; one can not easily delimit and characterize it with scientific accuracy. Nevertheless the word corresponds to a fairly definite range of psychical reactions which are of great interest in modern poetry, especially German poetry. The phenomenon is worth studying in detail. In undertaking a study of it Mr. Braun thought, and I readily concurred in the opinion, that he would do best not to essay an exhaustive history, but to select certain conspicuously interesting types and proceed by the method of close analysis, characterization and comparison. I consider his work a valuable contribution to literary scholarship.