Reviews for German poetry from 1750 to 1900

The average rating for German poetry from 1750 to 1900 based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-12-24 00:00:00 Mads Brevik Read for The Literary Life Podcast Reading Challenge: 19 in 2021 11. A literary biography Beautiful and very informative. Not quite sure if it fits the prompt, but it satiated my thirst after having read As Kingfishers Catch Fire and having fell in love with it.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-06-06 00:00:00 Jack Harris I've really only read a few poems in here, and those, over and over. God's Grandeur, The Windhover: To Christ Our Lord, Pied Beauty, Spring and Fall: To a Young Child -- all written roughly during the same period are my very selected favorites, and the ones most anthologized. I am going to shelf this as reference and mark it as a re-read. But I want to say a word about Hopkins as a poet. For one like I am, essentially disinterested in active religious thought (I practice religious thought that consists of thinking about how religious thought works rather than having religious thought myself, in strictest terms), finding the appeal in Hopkins' overtly religious poetry has been something of a replacement for my laid-aside religious nature. His synestheia induced joy and nature worship in the language of Christianity is at once comforting and healing for me. Perhaps it's not so bad a thing (you listening Dawkins, Hitchens et al?) to find God to be something that makes you weep for beauty and filled with love. On the other hand, that same religion made Hopkins hate himself and his nature, and his final wishes were that all his poetry would be destroyed by his friend. Luckily, his friend didn't keep to that desire, or we would be much more impoverished.