The Lay of Our Lady (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Lay of Our Lady Almost every art-period has its three stages of crude beginning, complete finish, and overstrained skill. The Minnesinger period of German literature, tremblingly entering upon a newborn world of rythm and rhyme, and in its first faltering utterances of their supernatural beauty often forgetting strict measure, the very essence of art, had risen into fullest development when men like Walther von der Vogelweide, Gottfried von Strassburg, and Wolfram von Eschenbach had learned to rule with self-conscious ease and skill the manifold elements of their craft of poesy. Then, with another age of men, to whom the Ne of poetry had not been transmitted, and who nevertheless were intensely susceptible to the beauty of its form, this period entered upon its third and last stage of overstrained effort. Among the men who stood between the two last periods as connecting links, most of them already of the citizen class and men of learning - whereas, the Minnesinger of former times was an unlettered knight, with knowledge of little but the laws of rythm, rhyme, and metre, and the games, sports and rules of his profession, but filled with unlimited devotion to woman - ranks foremost in the eyes of our own times no less than he ranked in those of his own age, which fairly worshipped him, Henry von Meissen, more generally known as Frauenlob, the Algernon Swinburne of his time, and the last of the Minnesingers. For, although he was neither a knight nor an adherent to the old form of the Minnesong, he yet retained the power of singing that old Minnesong in all its original simplicity; and while in the might of his learning he, like the other poets of his time, preferred the regions of mystical lore or reflective contemplation, as affording a wider scope for the display of his marvelous powers of versification and riches of mind, - the inimitable grace of that knight-minstrel´s love-song would haunt his soul and peep out with strange bewilderment amid the imagery and lore of a new time. This new time was verily to it, the simple and clear, most strange and enigmatical. 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.
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