Droste-Hülshoff, Annette von - Mary Morgan (essay date 1981)
Mary Morgan (essay date 1981)
SOURCE: Morgan, Mary. “The Great Achievement.” In Annette von Droste-Hülshoff: A Woman of Letters in a Period of Transition, pp. 183-218. Berne: Peter Lang, 1981.
[In the following excerpt, Morgan concludes her study of Droste-Hülshoff's career with her later works, including Der Spiritus familiaris des Rosstäuschers and the Heidebilder poems. Morgan draws frequent parallels between Droste-Hülshoff and English Romantic poets to illustrate the German author's position in literary history.]
DER SPIRITUS FAMILIARIS DES ROSSTäUSCHERS
Late in the year 1842, after the publication of Die Judenbuche, Annette wrote to Schücking:
Ich habe soeben ein grösseres Gedicht beendigt von ohngefähr 600-700 Versen, “Der Spiritus familiaris des Rosstäuschers”, sieben Abteilungen, eine Grimmsche Sage zum Grunde; sie gefällt sehr.1
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