Daniel to laugh him to scorn".
In the opening section of this work, its protagonist compares himself to Schiller's Franz Moor, "entreat[ing] Daniel to laugh him to scorn". Its protagonist composes a poem in which a "black hand" repeatedly plucks out joys from the life shared by he and his fiancée; that occurs after this story's narrator describes how he'd considered opening it with its protagonist telling a "weather-glass peddler" to "go to the devil" rather than using three letters. Its protagonist kills himself after seeing his fiancée (*) Clara's eyes burst into flame through his telescope, and he'd earlier used thattelescope to look into Professor Spalanzani's house, where he saw and fell in love with Olimpia, who is eventually revealed to be an automaton. For 10 points, identify this short story in which Coppola is revealed to be the malevolent Coppelius, who Nathanael believed to be the titular fairy-tale figure, a work from Nachtstücke by E.T.A. Hoffmann.
In the opening section of this work, its protagonist compares himself to Schiller's Franz Moor, "entreat[ing]
“The {Sandman}” [or “{Der Sandmann}”]