"Dissertation zur Erlangung des Doktorgrades der philosophischen Fakultät der Georg-August-Universität zu Göttingen." / Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-353).

Erich Fried, ultimately a prominent German poet, had been forced to flee from his native country after the annexation of Austria in 1938, and remained in London throughout his life. In wartime London he published in German exile journals. By 1945 two volumes of his poetry had appeared. This success augured well for the future. Yet the post-war period did not bring the publications he had hoped for. Fried remained in London. He nevertheless attempted to secure publications in Germany, but his endeavours were made more difficult by his prolonged exile. In London Fried maintained contact with other German exile writers and made no attempt at assimilation. He remained orientated towards German-speaking Europe. His work of this period was out of step with developments in Germany and this explains the poor response to his first publications there. Employment with the BBC led to his very successful translation of Dylan Thomas' <I>Under Milk Wood.</I> This earned him a reputation as a translator and led to two poetry volumes and a novel. Fried was subsequently invited to join the influential <I>Gruppe 47</I>. The publication in 1966 of <I>und Vietnam und</I> secured Fried's reputation as a political poet and marked the return in his work to political themes which he had abandoned in 1945. Subsequently Fried was extremely productive and published may volumes of poetry and prose and a variety of translations from English, including his much admired Shakespeare translations. Fried overcame the disadvantageous situation of his prolonged exile. In the later period he spent much time in German-speaking Europe, returning to Britain to recuperate and write. Fried had been made homeless in 1938 and never regained his <I>Heimat</I>, although it would appear that he welcomed the absence of the confines of a narrowly defined nationality and home.

This thesis reads seminal texts such as Wordsworth’s prose, Lyrical Ballads, The Prelude, and The Excursion alongside Coleridge’s poetic theory and practice and Novalis, Tieck and Friedrich Schlegel’s philosophical novels and fragments, as ‘poetologies’. My initial research aim is to test how successfully Wordsworth can be read as part of this Anglo-German comparative framework, from which criticism has tended to exclude him. This is done through demonstrating the centrality of irony and drama to the philosophical character of Wordsworth’s poetry. Drawing on the theory of the Frühromantiker, I demonstrate that Wordsworth’s revisionary habit and his use of ballads and epitaphs shape a poetics constantly ‘in the process of becoming’ (F. Schlegel), the vehicle of the poet’s aspirations to dramatize a potentially infinite self-consciousness. Secondly, my thesis investigates the ways of reading these seminal texts which give us a clearer idea of how Romantic writers internally situate their own work through their use of contrasting genres. This investigation expands to examine how the collaborative, interdisciplinary ventures proposed by Romantic writers elaborate the concept of ‘poetology’ as a practicable theory. This leads to my final research aim: to make apparent that these methodologies result in the Mischgedicht, the ‘mixed poem’ which Schlegel theorizes as the ultimate incarnation of modern, ‘Romantic’ literature. The thesis concludes by drawing theories, methodologies and texts together and making sense of that ultimate continuity sought by the Romantic project. I do this by turning to the poetologizing of immortality (which supersedes death as a Romantic preoccupation) and arguing that to poetologize immortality – to poeticize and philosophize it simultaneously – is the test-case for producing the infinite from the finite. I suggest the necessity felt by Romantic writers to achieve this transformation in order to legitimate the permeable philosophical poetry and poetic philosophy – ‘poetologies’ – which made it possible.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, 1910. / Also available on the Internet.

This thesis investigates the medieval genre of the Tagelied or dawn-song to examine its diachronic development from the Middle Ages to today. The genre in its origin is best represented by the Middle High German songs, Slâfest du, vriedel ziere by Dietmar von Aist, Owê, sol aber mir iemer mê by Heinrich von Morungen, Wolfram von Eschenbach‘s Den morgenblic bî wahtaers sange, Otto von Botenlauben‘s Wie sol ich den ritter nû gescheiden, as well as Ich wache umbe eines ritters lîp by Marktgraf von Hohenburg. All these songs exemplify the original motifs of the Middle-High-German “Tagelied.” The distinctiveness of this thesis is that it takes the medieval motifs – such as the separation of two lovers at dawn and the role of the watchman who announces the approach of day – as well as the thematics of sexual, gender, and class relations between the lovers to examine their reappearance in eleven New High German poems and songs, including works by Brentano, Goethe, Borchardt, Rilke and Rühmkorf. A number of folksongs from the Romantic era to today are also taken into consideration, including popular songs by such contemporary “medieval” German bands as Faun and Schandmaul. Each poem is analysed separately, whereby their intertextual connections are simultaneously drawn out. This approach not only shows that the motifs resurface up to the present but also, and even more importantly, how they have changed over the centuries. By looking at the poems and comparing them we are able to recognize important changes in society which strongly influence the poems’ contents. Of course, love, sexuality, gender, and class relations are still expressed in each poem, but they have undergone modifications over time. This thesis brings these changes into focus by analysing the development of the motifs step by step.

Inaug.-diss.--Freiburg im Breisgau. / Lebenslauf. "Erscheint zugleich in der 'Sammlung Heitz' (Akademische abhandlungen zur kulturgeschichte, X. reihe, bd. 1) im verlag von Heitz & co., Strassburg." "Literaturverzeichnis": p. 113-[121].

Inaug.-Diss.--Bonn. / Lebenslauf. Issued also without thesis note as Bonner Beiträge zur deutschen Philologie. Hft. 1. "Literaturverzeichnis": [3] p. preceding "Lebenslauf" at end.

Thesis--Johns Hopkins University. / Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 190-197).

Inaur.-diss.--Tübingen. / "Die arbeit erscheiat gleichzeitig in den Tübinger germaniattschem arboiten als heft 27." Lebenslauf. "Quellenverzeichnis": p. [vii]-viii; "Literaturverzeichnis": p, viii-xii.

Inaug.-diss.--Munster i.W. / Lebenslauf. "Sonder-abdruck aus 'Dortmundisches magazin'" "Literaturubersicht": p. [v]-vii.