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Updated: June 13, 2025
There is, however, no doubt whatever that the book first appeared in English in 1785, and that Buerger's German version did not see the light until 1786.
You must some time have read Buerger's ballad of the 'Wild Huntsman, founded on the legend of a certain nobleman, on the banks of the Rhine, a great hunter, who, if I mistake not, could never mount his horse for the chase without being accompanied, on either side, by a good and a bad angel, one urging him to follow the beaten track, and respect the rights of property, the other urging him to rush across the fields, trampling down harvest, gardens, and passers-by, careless of what injury he inflicted.
After expatiating upon the high vocation of the poet, the necessity of his thinking and feeling nobly, and the importance of his giving only his idealized self, the anonymous critic proceeded to comment upon Buerger's frequent lapses from good taste, his crudities, indecencies and vulgar ding-dongs, and to refer these things with remorseless directness to personal defects.
I was resolved, however, to sound him upon the subject of Lady Geraldine, I waited for a good opportunity: at length, as we were looking together over the prints of Buerger's Lenore, he led to the sort of conversation that I desired, by telling me an anecdote relative to the poet, which he had lately heard from a German baron.
If the horse has been too well trained for the heroine's purpose, 'some footpad, bandit fierce, or mountaineer, some jealous rival must make his appearance quite unexpectedly at the turn of a road, and the lady must be carried off robes flying hair streaming like Buerger's Leonora. Then her lover must come to her rescue just in the proper moment.
This unfortunate feud with Buerger grew out of a magisterial review published by Schiller in 1791; a review which, while dignified in tone and purporting to speak solely in the interest of the lyric art, amounted to a scathing condemnation of Buerger's character.
'Sanin! she cried, 'why, this is like Buerger's Lenore! Only you're not dead eh? Not dead ... I am alive! She let her force and daring have full fling. It seemed not an Amazon on a galloping horse, but a young female centaur at full speed, half-beast and half-god, and the sober, well-bred country seemed astounded, as it was trampled underfoot in her wild riot!
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