Eduard Mörike

Raleigh Whitinger (University of Alberta)
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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 19 March 2024.]

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