The book Personality in German Literature Before Luther was written by author Francke, Kuno, 1855-1930 Here you can read free online of Personality in German Literature Before Luther book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Personality in German Literature Before Luther a good or bad book?
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He grasps life in its totality, because in himself life pulsates fully. He has an eye and an ear for the highest and the lowest, for the most delicate and ^ £rk und Boehme, loc, cU., i, 566. Digitized by VjOOQ IC lOO GERMAN LITERATURE the grossest of the outer world, because the con- trasts of existence dash in his own innermost soul. It is not a mere coincidence that many of the most lustrous figures of popular song belong to the same time which, in the paintings of a Jan van Eyck or a Rogier ...van der Weyden, has left us portraits of individuals of such a depth of expression, such a firmness of character, such a complexity of will and intellect as hardly any other time has produced. Both painting and folksong of the fifteenth cen- tury prove to us that it was the concentration of the inner self which enabled the men of that time to assimilate the world and to reproduce it in art. K the folksong of the end of the Middle Ages is a popular successor to chivalric Minnesong, we i&ay see a popular successor to the chivalric epic in the satirical narrative from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries.
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