Das geistliche Jahr (or the Spiritual Year) is a religious and philosophical cycle of poems that began in 1818 and were published in 1851. The poems were written by
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
Baroness Anna Elisabeth Franziska Adolphine Wilhelmine Louise Maria von Droste zu Hülshoff, known as Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (; 10 January 179724 May 1848), was a 19th-century German poet, novelist, and composer of Classical music. She was ...
, an influential 19th-century German author and one of
Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...
's most well-known female poets.
Poems
''Das geistliche Jahr'' includes the following poems, together with their equivalents in English:
See also
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Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
Baroness Anna Elisabeth Franziska Adolphine Wilhelmine Louise Maria von Droste zu Hülshoff, known as Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (; 10 January 179724 May 1848), was a 19th-century German poet, novelist, and composer of Classical music. She was ...
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Die Judenbuche
''Die Judenbuche'', translated as ''The Jew's Beech'' or ''The Jew's Beech-Tree'', is a German novella written by Annette von Droste-Hülshoff and first published in 1842. The story about the unsolved murder of a Jewish citizen in a village in t ...
References
* Meinolf Schumacher: "Annette von Droste-Hülshoff und die Tradition. Das 'Geistliche Jahr' in literarhistorischer Sicht", in ''Dialoge mit der Droste'', ed Ernst Ribbat, Paderborn 1998, p. 113-145.
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* Meinolf Schumacher: "Ein Wüstenherold für die Noth. Zu Pragmatik und Aktualität von Annette von Droste-Hülshoffs 'Geistlichem Jahr'", in ''Droste-Jahrbuch'' 6, 2005/06, p. 105-122.
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External links
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' (The Spiritual Year, cycle of poems), 1851, available to download from Project Gutenberg.
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German poems
1851 poems
German poetry collections