Jane Brown separates this movement from its predecessor by noting its pessimism at the subject-object dichotomy in works like "In the Lovely Month of May."  
Jane Brown separates this movement from its predecessor by noting its pessimism at the subject-object dichotomy in works like "In the Lovely Month of May."  Among the lyrics it produced were "Reed Songs" and "To an Old painting," while longer works associated with it are The Spiritual Year and Wisdom of the Brahmins.  In addition to Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Eduard Morike and Friedrich Ruckert, it is associated with a poem about a fisherman who looks at a golden goddess instead of the deadly rocks around him, "Die Lorelei," which was collected in The Book of Songs.   The source of many song cycles, FTP, name this post-Romantic German movement at its peak between 1815-1848, exemplified by Heinrich Heine.
Jane Brown separates this movement from its predecessor by noting its pessimism at the subject-object dichotomy in works like "In the Lovely Month of May."  
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