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| Format | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Poesche, Emma, 1827-1911 |
| Title, Analytic | Nicolaus Lenau |
| Journal Title | The Open Court |
| Date of Publication | June 23, 1892 |
| Volume ID | 6 |
| Issue ID | 252 |
| Location in Work | 3288-3292 |
| URL | |
| Notes | "To be concluded" |
| MKI Annotation | Additional information on Emma Poesche |
| Abstract | "Goethe and Schiller, the two great German contemporaries, have found their way to the heart and mind of the whole civilised world. Of two other contemporary poets, Heine and Lenau, only the former has been universally recognised; Lenau's fame hardly reached beyond the limits of Austria and Germany, though his countrymen consider him one of their greatest lyric bards. . . . Lenau set out for America in the middle of June 1832, landing in Baltimore about the middle of October. . . . America disappointed him from beginning to end. 'Instead of wine they have cider,' he wrote home (it was before the time of the California vineyards), 'they have no nightingales, and it takes the voice of a Niagara to preach to the American people that there are higher aims in life than worshipping their great idol — money,' etc. Nevertheless he was deeply impressed by her great natural beauty as revealed to him in the primeval forests of the West, the valley of the Hudson and the Niagara Falls." |
| Call Number | Digital file (PDF) |
| MKI Terms | Lenau, Nikolaus, 1802-1850/ Biographies/ Travel/ America/ 19th century |