SOURCE: Gosse, Edmund W. “Walther von der Vogelweide.” In Studies in the Literature of Northern Europe, pp. 197-229. London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1879.
In the following essay, Gosse examines Walther's life, traces the succession of his patrons, and explains how politics, religion, and folk songs influenced his poetry.
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