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Joseph (Karl Benedikt) Freiherr von Eichendorff

Eichendorff, who lived from 1788 to 1857, is among the greatest staff of German lyric poetry. Deceptively basic, his language is certainly profoundly musical, and his designs, exemplified by his atmospheric poem “Mondnacht” (Moonlit Evening), which a critic named an eminently “undemonic” evening poem, often are the ineffable secret of …

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