folk-epithalamium

Updated: May 14, 2025

It is an attempt to express in terms of one sense the ideas or apperceptions of another. But where Tieck falls into meaningless jingle, Brentano succeeds, not merely in suggesting but in producing the effect, as in his Merry Musicians , or in bringing about its latent mood, as in his Spinner's Song or in his version of the old folk-epithalamium, "Come out, come out, thou lovely, lovely bride."

Various - The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 : Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English