Excerpt from Mozart Auf Der Reise Nach Prag: Novelle Morike is greatest as a lyric poet. The gentle notes in his little volume of Gedz'elzte in 1838, were, to be sure, drowned out by the thunder of the political poets; his homely sentiments could make no headway against the rush of enthusiasm for the tropical monsters of F reiligrath; and when this fever had abated somewhat, men sought refreshment rather, as Carl Weitbrechtl says, in the trickling meadow-brooks of Geibel than in the hid den spring of Morike's verse. Nevertheless, it may be said that no German poet since Goethe wrote so nearly in the mas ter's spirit as this fellow-countryman of Schiller and Uhland. Morike did not, like the other Suabians, delight in ballads and the treatment of historical themes. He expressed more per sonal emotions, reacting on the experiences of his daily life, or uttering the thoughts which assumed plastic form while he wrote. 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.