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Der König in Thule. The King of Thule (1896) by Pierre Jean van der Ouderaa. " Der König in Thule " (" The King in Thule ") is a German poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, written in 1774. Goethe wrote the poem " Geistesgruß " as a precursor of " Der König in Thule ", while he was travelling to Lahneck Castle on the river Lahn in July 1774.
The King and Kingdom of Thule referenced in the poem have no historical basis, nor did Goethe claim such. Goethe's poem was famously set to music by Franz Schubert (D 367, 1816), Franz Liszt (S.531) and Robert Schumann (Op.67, No.1), and in the collection Ultima Thule (1880) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow .
Edgar Allan Poe (né Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, author, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre.
The poem, written in 1908 and privately published in 1912, was part of a collection titled The Desert. It caught the public attention and the popular imagination when King George VI quoted it in his 1939 Christmas broadcast to the British Empire. The poem may have been brought to his attention by his wife, Queen Elizabeth (the Queen Consort ).
Alexander Pope, author of The Dunciad The Dunciad / ˈ d ʌ n s i. æ d / is a landmark, mock-heroic, narrative poem by Alexander Pope published in three different versions at different times from 1728 to 1743. The poem celebrates a goddess, Dulness, and the progress of her chosen agents as they bring decay, imbecility, and tastelessness to the Kingdom of Great Britain. Versions The first ...
The Thule Society ( / ˈtuːlə /; German: Thule-Gesellschaft ), originally the Studiengruppe für germanisches Altertum ('Study Group for Germanic Antiquity'), was a German occultist and Völkisch group founded in Munich shortly after World War I, named after a mythical northern country in Greek legend. The society is notable chiefly as the ...
La damnation de Faust. La damnation de Faust (English: The Damnation of Faust ), Op. 24 is a work for four solo voices, full seven-part chorus, large children's chorus and orchestra [1] by the French composer Hector Berlioz. He called it a " légende dramatique " ( dramatic legend ). [2] It was first performed at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on ...
Alone (Poe) "Alone" by Edgar Allan Poe. " Alone " is a 22-line poem originally written in 1829, and left untitled and unpublished during Poe's lifetime. The original manuscript was signed "E. A. Poe" and dated March 17, 1829. [1] In February of that year, Poe's foster mother Frances Allan had died.