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But don't you see the landlord's pale face peeping in at the window every now and then, just in the style in which the uncle Kuehleborn, in Fouqué's 'Undine, used to 'keek' in at the window of the fisherman's hut. Haven't you noticed the irritated 'Oh, Jemini! countenance of the waiter? Are you never going to let an honest man get to his well-earned bed? Those people are right.
All Romanticists have consciously or unconsciously attempted to satisfy Friedrich Schlegel's demand for anew mythology: Fouqué's earth, air, and water spirits people the elements with graceful forms from the world of nature; the nymph Undine in the form of a flowing stream embraces even in death the grave of her lover. He is called "the classicist of Romanticism," and with justice.
She too, after many journeys to Iceland, Greenland, and Winland, goes on a pilgrimage to Rome, to get, I presume, absolution from the Pope himself for all the sins of her strange, rich, stormy, wayward life. Have you not read many of you surely have La Motte Fouque's romance of "Sintram?" It embodies all that I would say.
His masterpiece is "Undine," published in 1814, the other best-known works being "Sintram," "Aslauga's Knight," and "The Two Captains." In all Fouqué's stories the marks of genius appear in his brilliant imagination and pure and fascinating diction. I. The Water Sprite About a century ago an aged fisherman sat mending his nets by his cottage door, in front of a lovely lake.
It was Fouque's charming story of the knight Froda, and the fair daughter of Sigurd, who was a sort of spirit, appearing to her lover in hours of danger and trial, as well as triumph and joy, till she became his guide and guard, inspiring him with courage, nobleness, and truth, leading him to great deeds in the field, sacrifices for those he loved, and victories over himself by the gleaming of her golden hair, which shone on him in battle, dreams, and perils by day and night, till after death he finds the lovely spirit waiting to receive and to reward him.
I like the mystery and the spirituality, the poetry and the romance." "I read a book of Fouque's last night that charmed me Minstrel Love. Do you know it, Lady Amelie?" "No," she replied; "tell me what it is." "Only the history of a poet-knight who loved the lofty Lady Alcarda. She lived with her husband, a German warrior, in an old castle, and the poet was her knight.
Presently it swept on out of hearing, and by-and-bye they reached the summit of the hill, and looked forth on the dark pine plantations on the opposite undulation, standing out in black relief against a sky golden with a pale, pure, pearly November sunset, a 'daffodil sky' flecked with tiny fleeces of soft bright-yellow light, reminding Albinia of Fouque's beautiful dream of Aslauga's golden hair showing the gates of Heaven to her devoted knight.
FOUQUE'S Minstrel Love 'Wrangerton, August 20th. 'You must not be frightened, dearest Violet Albert is safe; thanks to that most noble-hearted, admirable Lord St. Erme, and above all, thanks to Him who directed this dreadful stroke away from us. I hope you will receive this before you see the newspaper. Mamma has gone up with them, to help them to break it to poor Lady Lucy. May she be supported!
Some of Goethe's little ballads, for instance, such as `The Erl King, and others that Walter Scott has translated, are wonderfully beautiful; not to speak of Uhland's poetry, and La Motte Fouque's charming Undine, which is as pretty a poem as I have ever read." "I confess," said Min, "that I have not had any general experience of German literature.
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