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MORIKE, EDUARD FRIEDRICH (1804-1875)

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MORIKE, EDUARD See also:FRIEDRICH (1804-1875) , See also:German poet, was See also:born at See also:Ludwigsburg on the 8th of See also:September 1804. In 1834 he was appointed pastor of Kleversulzbach near See also:Weinsberg, and in 1851 became See also:professor of literature at the Katharinenstift in See also:Stuttgart. This See also:office he held until his retirement in 1866; but he continued to live at Stuttgart until his See also:death on the 4th of See also:June 1875. Morike is the most lyrically gifted of all the poets belonging to the so-called Swabian school which gathered See also:round See also:Uhland. His poems, Gedichte (1838; 22nd ed., 1905), are mostly lyrics, graceful in See also:style, See also:original in conception, often humorous, but expressed in See also:simple and natural See also:language. He also wrote a somewhat fantastic Idylle vom Bodensee, See also:oder See also:Fischer See also:Martin and See also:die Glockendiebe (1846; and ed., 1856), and published a collection of See also:hymns, odes, elegies and idylls of the Greeks and See also:Romans, entitled Klassische Blumenlese (184o), and several novels and narratives, among the former Maler Nolten (1832; 6th ed., 1901), which enjoyed See also:great popularity. Morike's Gesammelte Schriften were first published in 4 vols. (in 1878) ; the most See also:recent See also:editions are those edited by R. Krauss (6 vols., 1905), and the Volksausgabe, published by See also:Goschen (4 vols., 1905). Selections from his See also:literary remains were published by R. Krauss in Eduard Morike als Gelegenheitsdichter (1895), and his See also:correspondence with See also:Hermann See also:Kurz, See also:Moritz von See also:Schwind, and Theodor See also:Storm, by J. Bachtold (1885–1891); an edition of Morike's Ausgewahlte Briefe, in 2 vols., appeared 1903–1904.

See F. Notter, Eduard Morike (1875) ; and H. Fischer, Eduard Morike (1881); K. Fischer, E. Morike (19o1); H. Maync, E. Morike (1902) ; K. Fischer, Morikes kiinstlerisches Schaffen and dichterische Schopfungen (1903).

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