Germany
The purpose of the following study is to examine closely certain German authors of modern times, whose lives and writings exemplify in an unusually striking degree that peculiar phase of lyric feeling which has characterized German literature, often in a more or less epidemic...
Heine was probably the first German writer to use the term Weltschmerz in its present sense. Breitinger in his essay "Neues über den alten Weltschmerz"[181] endeavors to trace t...
2. Chapter 2A case such as that of Hölderlin, subject as he was from the time of his boyhood to melancholy, and ending in hopeless insanity, at once suggests the question of heredity. Littl...
3. Chapter 3Without presuming even to attempt a final solution of a problem of pathology concerning which specialists have failed to agree, there seems to be sufficient circumstantial as we...
1. Chapter 1The purpose of the following study is to examine closely certain German authors of modern times, whose lives and writings exemplify in an unusually striking degree that peculiar...
5. Chapter 5Betz, Dr. Louis P. Heine in Frankreich. Eine litterarhistorische Untersuchung. Zürich, 1895. Betz, Dr. Heinrich Heine und Alfred de Musset. Eine biographisch-litterarische Paral...