Deutsche Lyrik

Excerpt from Deutsche Lyrik: Selected and Arranged, With Notes and a Literary Introduction Goethe's feelings were, however, so intense, and his mastery ov er the language so great, that when he did express an ia dividual feeling of his own, say of longing or sadness, his verses did not seem to express his own sentiments only, but the feeling of longin or sadness in general. Truly therefore might Goethe's lish biographer say with regard to his style: It 0 na itself like a żower with unpretendin grace T ere is no ornament in it. The beauties whio it reveals are organic, they form part and parcel of the very tissue of the poem, and are not ad ed as ornaments. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.