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LILIENCRON, DETLEV VON (1844-1909)

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LILIENCRON, DETLEV VON (1844-1909) , See also:German poet and novelist, was See also:born at See also:Kiel on the 3rd of See also:June 1844. He entered the See also:army and took See also:part in the See also:campaigns of 1866 and 187o-71, in both of which he was wounded. He retired with the See also:rank of See also:captain and spent some See also:time in See also:America, afterwards settling at Kellinghusen in See also:Holstein, where he remained till 1887. After some time at See also:Munich, he settled in See also:Altona and then at Altrahistedt, near See also:Hamburg. He died in See also:July 1909. He first attracted See also:attention by the See also:volume of poems, Adjutantenrilte and anderc Gedichte (1883), which was followed by several unsuccessful dramas, a volume of See also:short stories, Eine Sommerschlacht (1886), and a novel Breide Hummelsbilttel (1887). Other collections of short stories appeared under the titles Unter flatternden Fahnen (1888). Der Maven (1889), Krieg and Frieden (1891); of lyric See also:poetry in 1889, 1890 (Der Heideglinger and andere Gedichte), 1893, and 1903 (Bunte Beute). Interesting, too, is the humorous epic Poggfred (1896; 2nd ed. 1904). Liliencron is one of the most eminent of See also:recent German lyric poets; his Adjutantenritte, with its fresh See also:original See also:note, See also:broke with the well-worn See also:literary conventions which had been handed down from the See also:middle of the See also:century. Liliencron's See also:work is, however, somewhat unequal, and he lacks the sustained See also:power which makes the successful See also:prose writer.

Liliencron's Samtliche Werke have been published in 14 vols. (19o4—19o5); his Gedichte having been previously collected in four volumes under the titles Kampf and Spiele, Kampfe and Ziele, Nebel and Sonne and Bunte Beute (1897—1903). See O. J. Bierbaum, D. von Liliencron (1892) ; H. Greinz, Liliencron, eine literarhistorische Wurdiigung (1896); F. Oppenheimer, D. von Liliencron (1898).

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