Great German Poems of the Romantic Era and contraptions include foot stoves

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the confession of how to raise a tempest by a washwoman suspended "hardly clear of the ground" by her thumbs

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as fresh and inspirational today as it was upon its initial publication a century ago

Great German Poems of the Romantic Era and contraptions include foot stovesLyric poetry blossomed in 19th century Germany under the fertilizing influence of Romanticism with its focus on the primacy of the imagination, worship of nature and childhood, dreaminess and nostalgia and preoccupation with thoughts of night and death. Although strictly defined as flourishing from 1798 to 1835, Romanticism is not timebound and German Romantic poetry was written both before and after these dates. Indeed, the 131 poems in this volume