Excerpt from Hannele: A Dream Poem Manmlz'ed), and conceived the plan of a romance to be entitled Perikles. In order to work up the local colour, he felt that he must see Athens, and actually set forth in the spring of 1883. Happening to visit Capri on his way, however, he was so fascinated by the loveliness of the island and its surroundings that he went no further. A study of the history of Capreae made very real to his imagination the gloomy despot whose ghost may be said to haunt the island, and a vast tragedy, Tz'een'us, was the inevitable result. The manuscript was duly despatched to Professor Bohtlingk, whose judgment of it was so unfavourable that the poet, utterly discouraged, determined to return to his first love, and once more try his hand at sculpture. To that end, he betook himself to Rome, and set to work, but was presently disabled by a severe attack of typhus fever. On his convalescence, he returned to Germany and after passing a short time in Hamburg and Dresden, settled in Berlin, and devoted himself to philosophical and historical studies. Here he married, in 1885 and the dedication of Harmele to his wife denotes that his choice has proved a happy one. It is said, too, that the lady was by no means a tocherless lass, - a detail which it may not be impertinent to men tion, since criticism may reasonably inquire whether a poet writes under the spur of material necessity, or is free to await and obey the promptings of his creative instinct. 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.