 Oehlenschläger's poem about "The Golden Horns" ("Guldhornene") is probably the most famous example of this issue but Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale "The Bell" ("Klokken") depicted the materialistic fixation of the period with humour, irony and gravity.In the chapter about "A Folk Tale" in "My Theatre Life" ("Mit Teaterliv"), Bournonville makes his attitude to the present and the past clear