Wilhelm Müller | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 11 pages of analysis & critique of Wilhelm Müller.

Wilhelm Müller | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 11 pages of analysis & critique of Wilhelm Müller.
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SOURCE: "The Poet," in Wilhelm Müller: The Poet of the Schubert Song Cycles:His Life and Works, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1981, pp. 35-69.

In the following excerpt, Baumann considers the metrical variations, lyric cycles, use of roles, and affinity to the German folk song of Müller's poetry.

Ich kann weder spielen noch singen und wenn ich dichte, so sing' ich doch und spiele auch. Wenn ich die Weisen von mir geben könnte, so würden meine Lieder besser gefallen, als jetzt. Aber, getrost, es kann sich ja eine gleichgestimmte Seele finden, die die Weise aus den Worten heraushorcht und sie mir zurückgiebt.1

Although Müller was active in several fields of literary endeavor, it is as the poet of simple lyrics in the folksong style that he is most often remembered. As early as 1821 a critic in Literarisches Konversationsblatt describes Müller as...

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