A German poet and minor political figure, Bürger was famous for his highly energetic and Romantically charged poems (as well as for a rather dissipated life). His ballads, with their verve and their supernaturalism, helped created the "Germanism" that fueled much Gothic fiction.
Sites:
Biographical note
[Wikipedia]
Brief biographical note
[Columbia Encyclopedia, Bartleby]
Biographical note
[1911 Encyclopedia]
Etexts:
"Lenore" [1773]
"The Wild Hunstmen" (aka "The Chase")
- Dante Rossetti's translation [Lit of the Fantastic]
- Thomas Taylor's translation (1796) [Romantic Circles High School]
- Thomas Taylor's translation (1796) [Romantic Circles High School]
This poem is attributed, on the Romantic Circles High School site, to Thomas Taylor, but that appears to be an error; this translation is by William Taylor, who published it in the Monthly Magazine in March of 1796, some 6 years after he first wrote it.
"The Wild Hunstmen" (aka "The Chase")
