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Phantastes Chapter 5: Romance Of Sir Launfal, Thomas Chestre
Phantastes Chapter 5: Romance Of Sir Launfal, Thomas Chestre
German Romantic and Other Influences
A medieval poem of 1045 lines telling of a knight who loses status and wealth and who meets a beautiful woman who gives him love and wealth as long as he keeps her existence a secret. The motif of the lover’s prohibition appears in several medieval texts, and MacDonald makes use of this motif in this chapter.
Phantastes Chapter 6: Der Zauberring (The Magical Ring), Friedrich Heinrich Karl
Phantastes Chapter 6: Der Zauberring (The Magical Ring), Friedrich Heinrich Karl
German Romantic and Other Influences
Fouqué, Friedrich Heinrich Karl de la Motte (1777-1843), is an important German writer who helped define German Romanticism. Fouqué’s Undine (1811) was the fairy tale that MacDonald cites in “The Fantastic Imagination” as the ideal fairy tale. Der Zauberring (The Magical Ring, 1813) follows Otto and his cousin Bertha as they go on a series of adventures to find the magic ring. This work, critics argue, influenced not only MacDonald but William Morris, Richard Wagner, and J. R. R. Tolkien.