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Phantastes Chapter 17/18: Exotics, Heinrich Heine
Phantastes Chapter 17/18: Exotics, Heinrich Heine
German Romantic and Other Influences
Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) was a German poet whose poetry has a strong political focus. MacDonald includes several translations from Heine in Exotics (pp. 154-165), his book of translations from German and Italian poets (1876). The poems he includes resonate nicely with Phantastes.
Phantastes Chapter 22: Titan: A Romance, Jean Paul
Phantastes Chapter 22: Titan: A Romance, Jean Paul
German Romantic and Other Influences
Jean Paul (Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, 1763-1825) was a German writer. Titan (1800-1803) is a four-volume novel in the Bildungsroman (novel of education) tradition. Schoppe is the friend of Albano (the main character), who searches for balance in his life. Schoppe, however, is a cynic and pessimist and dies after he thinks he see his doppelgänger, but who is, in fact, his look-alike friend. Schoppe’s tragic ending reinforces the death of the brothers in Phantastes.
Phantastes Chapter 16: Life And The Ideal, Friedrich Von Schiller
Phantastes Chapter 16: Life And The Ideal, Friedrich Von Schiller
German Romantic and Other Influences
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805) was a German writer, primarily known as a dramatist, poet, and literary critic. Das Ideal und das Leben (Life and the Ideal, 1795) is a philosophical poem. The Oxford Reference reports that the poem was “first published in 1795 in No. 9 of Die Horen, with the title ‘Das Reich der Schatten’. Schiller changed this in 1800 to ‘Das Reich der Formen’, and adopted the present title in 1804.” Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873), writer and politician, translated the poem in 1844 as Ideal and Actual Life. Bulwer-Lytton began his novel Paul Clifford …
Phantastes Chapter 18: Hesperus, Jean Paul
Phantastes Chapter 18: Hesperus, Jean Paul
German Romantic and Other Influences
Jean Paul—Johann Paul Friedrich Richter (1763-1825)—was a German writer in the Romantic tradition, also known for his humorous writing. Hesperus (1795) includes two major ideas that MacDonald explores throughout Phantastes: the notion of dreams, and the importance of mirrors.