Excerpt from Contemporary German Poetry Before Liliencron there had been a proverb: Holsatz'a non cantal. This he disproved: in his poems his native province of schleswig-holstein, with its marshes, its leagues of rolling heather, and its sad, grey sea over oozy flats, lives and sings indeed. It was not till his fortieth year that he began to write, but during the remainder of his life he poured out, in verse often more technically perfect than that of the Munich School, the accumulated memories of his rich and ...
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Excerpt from Contemporary German Poetry Before Liliencron there had been a proverb: Holsatz'a non cantal. This he disproved: in his poems his native province of schleswig-holstein, with its marshes, its leagues of rolling heather, and its sad, grey sea over oozy flats, lives and sings indeed. It was not till his fortieth year that he began to write, but during the remainder of his life he poured out, in verse often more technically perfect than that of the Munich School, the accumulated memories of his rich and reckless life. He is first and foremost a poet of the Open air: of war, and of the chase; and the directness of his style, the familiarity of his themes, and the hardihood. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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