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Joseph von Eichendorff

Eichendorff, who lived from 1788 to 1857, is one of the greatest representatives of German lyric poetry. Deceptively simple, his language is profoundly musical, and his themes, exemplified by his atmospheric poem "Mondnacht" (Moonlit Night), which a critic called an eminently "undemonic" night poem, often include the ineffable mystery of nature, experienced as the creation of an unfathomable deity, in which this devout Catholic believed without any reservations. Eichendorff's poems were set to music by the leading composers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, Wolf, and Richard Strauss. Born into an aristocratic family, Eichendorff went to Halle, in 1805, to study law. Transferring to Heidelberg two years later, he eventually found his way to Berlin and Vienna. He left Vienna in 1813, to fight against Napoleon. In 1815, when the war ended, Eichendorff left the army, eventually accepting a government position in Danzig, where he remained until 1831. In 1826, during his tenure at Danzig, he published Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts (Memoirs of a Good-for-Nothing) a dreamy, exquisitely lyrical chronicle of a poet's inner life. His next employer was the Ministry of Culture in Berlin; as a Roman Catholic in Protestant Prussia, however, Eichendorff encountered difficulties in government service, and he retired in 1844, devoting the rest of his life to criticism and literary history.
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