G. A. BURGER...ORIGINES ANGLAISES...BALLADE LITTERAIRE EN ALLEMAGNE

by Maury, G. Bonet

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Paris:: Hachette,, 1889. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; no card pocket or spine marks/label; 1/4 leather; paper-covered board corners worn; occasional light-to-moderate foxing just touches text; ribbon bookmark.. 40pp. Appendice + Table des Matieres. Gottfried August Buerger (1747-94), German Sturm- und Drangperiode poet, contemporary of Goethe & Schiller; wrote widely-acclaimed ballad `Leonore' (1773), based on a Slavic legend that tears shed by a maiden over her betrothed's death may return him from the grave as a vampire who will destroy her unless she is miraculously rescued. The ballad made his reputation. ||| Here--Buerger's biography; ballads & lyric poems printed in French & roman-letter German; reviews by Wieland, Voss, Schlegel, & the unjust condemnation by Schiller; variations on Buerger's work in Danish, English, Polish, & other languages.