Des Knaben Wunderhorn
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Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Alte deutsche Lieder is a collection of German folk poems and songs edited by Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano. The book was published in three volumes, the first in 1806, f
Title page of Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Alte deutsche Lieder, volume 1, published in 1806
Title page, volume 2, published in 1808
Frontispiece and title page, volume 3, published in 1808
Joseph Karl Benedikt Freiherr von Eichendorff was a German poet, novelist, playwright, literary critic, translator, and anthologist. Eichendorff was one of the major writers and critics of Romanticism
Joseph von Eichendorff as a young man
Eichendorff, etching by Franz Kugler, 1832
The remains of Lubowitz Castle, Racibórz (Poland), 2008. Note Eichendorff's portrait on the wall. The German inscription (Keinen Dichter noch ließ seine Heimat los) translates to "No poet's homeland has ever relinquished its hold on him", a quote from his novel Dichter und ihre Gesellen.