Eduard Mörike

Raleigh Whitinger (University of Alberta)

Ed. by Gerhard P. Knapp, University of Utah
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.4.1: German-language Writing and Culture: Germany, 500-present.
Vol. editors: Gerhard P. Knapp (University of Utah), Jennifer Marston William (Purdue University), Herbert Rowland (Purdue University), Jill E. Twark (East Carolina University)

Dates

Born 8 Sep 1804
Died 4 Jun 1875
Activity 1824-1875

Places

Born in Germany
Active in Germany

Activities

Primary

Novelist
Poet

Other

Essayist
Painter

Resources

Mörike's Works

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Eduard Mörike attained enduring fame in his lifetime primarily as a lyric poet and also produced prose works that have retained their significance as masterful contributions to modern German narrative. His poetry marks a significant transition phase in the lyric developments from the classical and romantic tradition around 1800 to the flourishing of the modernist lyric around 1900. In addition, his novella

Mozart auf der Reise nach Prag

[

Mozart on the Way to Prague

, 1856] ranks with Thomas Mann's

Death in Venice

as one of the most complex and compelling in an illustrious tradition of German artist stories, while his novel

Maler Nolten

[

Nolten the Painter

], completed in 1832 and partially revised between 1850 and 1875, is a presciently modern link in the emergence of the German

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Citation: Whitinger, Raleigh. "Eduard Mörike". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 28 July 2005 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5732, accessed 21 November 2024.]

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