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| Though all the characters which Storm likes to portray are wonderfully and apparently inextricably overgrown with tradition and custom, yet they are strong individualities, independent to the point of subbornness, and fully conscious of their right to their own inner life. |
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| 1817–88, German poet and novelist, b. Schleswig-Holstein.… His view that literature should stem from true emotion is reflected in his lyric poetry. Many of his earlier poems, stories, and novellas relate the rustic joys of his native province; the popular story Immensee (1852) is marked by nostalgic lyricism. Later works, melancholy and realistic, show a marked change in tone, and Der Schimmelreiter (1888; tr. The Rider of the White Horse, 1915) exemplifies the full development of a stern yet noble sense of tragedy.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. (See also: Biographical Note from Harvard Classics.) |
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- The Rider on the White Horse
From the Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction, Vol. XV, Part 3.
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