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STRACHWITZ, See also:MORITZ KARL WILHELM ANTON, GRAF1822 at Peterwitz near See also:Frankenstein in See also:Silesia. After studying in See also:Breslau and See also:Berlin he settled on his See also:estate in See also:Moravia, where he devoted himself to See also:literary pursuits. When travelling in See also:Italy in 1847 he was taken See also:ill at See also:Venice, and died on the 11th of See also:December at See also:Vienna. Although he had thus only reached his twenty-fifth See also:year, he revealed a lyric See also:genius of remarkable force and originality. His first collection of poems, Lieder eines Erwachenden, appeared in 1842 and went through several See also:editions. Neue Gedichte were published after his See also:death in 1848. These poems are characteristic of the transition through which the See also:German lyric was passing between 1840 and 1848; the old Romantic See also:strain is still dominant, especially in his See also:ballads, which are unquestionably his finest productions; but, See also:side by side with it, there is to be seen the See also:influence of Platen, to whose warmest admirers Strachwitz belonged, as well as echoes of the restless See also:political spirit of those eventful years. His political lyric was, however, tempered by an aristocratic See also:restraint which was absent from the writings of men like See also:Herwegh and See also:Freiligrath. Strachwitz's See also:early death was a See also:great loss to German letters; for he was by far the most promising of the younger lyric poets of his See also:time. Strachwitz's collected Gedichte appeared first in 185o (8th ed., 1891); a convenient reprint will be found in Reclam's Universalbibliothek. See A. K.

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Die Dichtung See also:des Grafen Moritz von Strachwitz (1902).

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