Author: A. E. Kroeger

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Published: 2015-07-12

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 9781331257837

Excerpt from The Minnesinger of Germany Long before Chaucer had fathered English poetry, and Spain and Italy had developed their languages to that purity which alone makes possible great achievements in the literary arts, Germany had passed through a period of splendor in the art of poetry, which even the period of the last century has not surpassed, and in some respects scarcely equaled. It was in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, under the glorious reign of the Hohenstauffens, amidst the turmoil of the Crusades, and whilst the sublime conceptions of the cathedrals of, Strassburg and Cologne were being wrought out, that there sprang up in Germany, as if by magic, that wonderful craft of Minnesinger, which lasted throughout a century and then gradually expired the grace and beauty of their singing appearing no more in German literature until Goethe struck anew the old tone, and thus heralded the dawn of the second brilliant period of German poetry. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.