Author: Wilhelm LübkePublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780265784631
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Excerpt from History of Sculpture, From the Earliest Ages to the Present Time, Vol. 2 of 2 All, therefore, that Christianity had with efi'ort repressed for nearly five hundred years, namely, the old Teutonic natural feeling and delight in the mighty legends of antiquity, now began uncontrollably to rise again, and acquired a new life through poetry. But one thing was irrecoverably lost, and that was the original connection of religious doctrine with national legend and with an innate appreciation of nature. The Christian religion had rejected that central point from which the sages had drawn their fuller and deeper life, and had implanted in the breast of the N orthern races a new heart, as it were, in the place of the old one. When, therefore, the legends of antiquity again made their way into poetry, they had lost their original feeling, and were often obliged with effort and constraint to adapt themselves to the Christian views that had, meanwhile, become predominant. Hence it was that the German nation could never produce a national epos like the Iliad and hence, moreover, it was that poets did not write for the whole people, but only for a chosen circle, and for courtly-trained knights. And hence the whole poetry of the period bears an artificial stamp, which only too speedily degenerated into an afi'ected and conventional character. 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.
