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Article: Tieck's Juvenila: Ossianic attributions.(poet Ludwig Tieck)
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- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 2001
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Unlike, say, Klopstock, Herder, Stolberg or Goethe, Ludwig Tieck is not a name that is readily associated with Macpherson's Ossian. In itself this need not mean very much. There are other major German writers whose names are not readily associated with it either, though it is high time that they were. (1) However, unlike the cases of Moritz or Holderlin where the evidence of a profound engagement with the Ossianic poetry stares critics in the face (though they usually choose to look the other way), Tieck seems an altogether more unlikely candidate for such reconsideration. He was, after all, bewildered when his friend Philipp Otto Runge developed a passion for Macpherson's ...