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and genius, produces new combinations, like earth terest. The poem takes in the portentous space of brought from a distance, renewing and invigorating 35 years; and yet the divisions of time are so adONE of the most striking as well as interesting the soil with which it mingles. This is particularly mirably made, and serve so well to mark the difand engaging traits of the character of the Germans, observable in the four great stars of German litera- ferent pauses in the action, that they are perhaps is the devoted attachment which they bear to the ture, Goethe, Schiller, Wieland, and Herder. rather a beauty than a defect. The same persons, ancient history and literature of their own country. But, in the whole domain of antiquity, whether with only one exception, continue in action throughIn this they are unequalled by any other nation in foreign or domestic, there is no work which has ex- out the whole poem, although, in the latter part, Europe; and with good reason on more accounts than cited this spirit so deeply and universally in Ger- many new ones are introduced, which, without one. Two different causes-one, the character of many as The Nibelungen Lied. It holds nearly the breaking at all the unity of the interest, greatly inthe ancient history and literature of Germany itself, same place in German poetry as the Odyssey in an- creases the variety. In this respect, it has the adand the second (what no one would expect) the mo- cient Greece (it would be doing it great injustice vantage over perhaps every other epic poem in dern regulations of the press in that country-both to put it on a level with the Iliad, to which it is far existence; even Tasso's "Jerusalem Delivered," contribute to this result. Whatever may be thought superior in conduct and incident, though infinitely which most resembles it (for Ariosto is not to be of the restriction of the press in a moral and political inferior in language, descriptions, and insulated pas- mentioned among epic poets), is inferior to it in point of view, certain it is, that the charge which has sages), or as Shakspeare among ourselves. It was this respect. Along with this, it has the very difbeen brought, apparently with justice, against its not till the middle of the last century that it ap-ferent and apparently contrary merit of extreme existence in Spain and Italy, as to its effect on the peared in print at all, being first published, and simplicity carried almost to a fault, as is usual with literature of those countries, is not applicable to that only in part, by the celebrated poet and critic, the ancient poems of all except the classic nations, Germany, at least to the northern and Protestant Bodmer, in 1757. The whole of it was afterwards but still far removed from the baldness that genepart of the country. So far from that being the made public by Müller, in 1782. Even after this, it rally accompanies that simplicity. This is visible case, it seems to be undeniable, that the state of does not appear to have attracted any attention dur- both in the language and the plan. The former has the press in Germany is the most favourable to ing the remainder of that century. The first person not the slightest pretension to ornament or harmony, the higher and more elegant branches of literature who had the honour of bringing its extraordinary me- and yet neither of those qualities is missed. Though that can possibly be. While the topics of the day, rits into public view, was Von Hagen, a Prussian there is nothing musical in the verse, yet it is not and all matters of a controversial nature, which con- nobleman of great spirit and talent, who, in 1807, labour thrown away: it would not answer as well in stitute so large a portion of the present ephemeral gave an edition of it, in which the original dialect prose; for there is something poetical, though one literature of England and France, are strictly prohi- was modernized, though at the same time with as cannot tell what it is, in the pause at the end of the bited, all the higher departments of writing, works little alteration as possible, and thus the work was line and the stanza, and in the rhyme of the couplet. of learning, criticism, and imagination, that class for the first time rendered generally intelligible and As to the plan, it is the most perfectly inartificial which is peculiarly entitled to the name of literature | popular, while at the same time the versification and that it is possible to imagine, and strongly confirms (since on it chiefly the literary celebrity of every na- spirit of the original were faithfully preserved: a the probability of its being (as indeed the author tion depends) and which alone is in its nature immor- mode of alteration that might perhaps be advantage- professes) a faithful record of older legends strung tal-all these are not only tolerated, but patronized ously applied to some of our oldest poets, and much together by him into an epic poem, which is also to a greater degree than in any other country of better than the paraphrases of Chaucer by Dryden proved by the great number of legends on the same Europe. It is pleasant to be able thus to find good and Pope, which scarcely give any idea of the origi- subject still extant.-Having given our readers an arising out of evil, and intellect promoted by the nal. Since then the work has continued increasing idea of the general character of the poem, we provery means that appear employed to check it, with- in popularity with an acceleration equal to that of ceed to lay before them an account of its plan and out, however, asserting that the regulation is a good Shakspeare among the English. Editions, transla- contents. It consists of 9640 lines, a length nearly one on the whole, or to be followed by other nations, tions, commentaries, and illustrations of all sorts corresponding to that of the Eneid, and is divided or even that more good would not result to Germany have been multiplied in rapid succession almost every into 39 cantos or sections. The subject is, in the itself from a free press, than exists at present under year; it has been selected as the subject for a na- first part, the adventures of Siegfrid, the Arthur of a restrained one. It is sufficient to show that it is not tional gallery of pictures along with the Iliad and Germany; and in the second, the war between Guna mere evil; that it not only permits, but produces Odyssey, by the King of Bavaria, to adorn the Grand ther, the King of the Franks, and Attila, the celesome good, though it may be of a lower order. Museum at Munich; and, to pass over a shoal of brated King of the Huns. The two stories are minor poets and writers who have taken the subject united, and the latter made poetical instead of polifor their theme, it has been celebrated by the two tical by the agency of Chriemhild, the wife of Sieggreatest living poets of Germany in their respective frid, whose revenge for the death of her husband (an departments, having been made the subject of a ro- event which occurs, too early for the wishes of most mance by Fouqué, the German Walter Scott, and of readers, a little before the middle of the poem) forms a tragedy by Raupach, which, though of a much lower the subject of the latter half, as in some manuscripts order of merit than others of his productions, and it gives the title to the whole. bearing marks of his usual rapidity and carelessness, is perhaps the greatest favourite, on the whole, of the modern German theatre.

But the chief cause which has rendered the study of their own antiquities so interesting to the Germans, is seated in the nature of those antiquities themselves. They are both more romantic and interesting in themselves than those of any other nation, unless Spain may be an exception, and also more closely connected with the present state of the country than any where else. Ancient Greece and Italy, not to mention Egypt and the East, are separated from those countries in their modern state by a chasm which makes them belong to a different world: France has neither ancient recollections to look back to, nor a turn of mind to value them if it had: and England is so much more interested in present and practical matters, that she looks back with more contempt than veneration on the past, and thinks more on how much we have advanced beyond our ancestors than how much we owe to them. But the German genius is essentially retrospective; it carries this disposition to the antiquities of other nations as well as its own; and what is peculiarly worthy of remark, this study with them does not, as among the individuals of other nations, terminate in itself, and become a mere mass of learning heaped up, but infuses itself into their whole train of thinking; and, ingrafted on modern intellect

The poem of The Nibelungen Lied, is fully worthy of all the admiration it has excited in its own country, and even out of it, with all those who can enter into the spirit and genius of ancient poetry. It is incomparably superior to any other relic of the middle ages, and possesses several attractions entirely peculiar to itself, and not shared by any other production. It is the only perfect epic poem of its time, and is remarkable both for its resemblance to, and its difference from, the classical models of antiquity. Tried by the rules of Aristotle, it is faulty in almost every particular; it violates, in its form, all the unities that can be violated in epic poetry; while, in its substance, it possesses a greater unity than perhaps any of them, except the Odyssey-the unity of in

But our present object is not to give an analysis of the poem, nor to point out the numerous beautiful passages in which it abounds, but to give an idea of its general character, as the national epic of ancient Germany. It is the morning star, or rather the morning sun of the second youth of the world,the period when the human intellect awoke from that reign of darkness which makes a gulf between ancient and modern history. We delight to see a second dawn of childhood similar to the first, and yet original: full of the freshness and brightness of the first, and yet of a different character: a charactetoo that has been remarkably preserved in the Gerr man, and, as Mr. Carlyle has observed, in it alone of all the literatures of modern Europe, down to the present day.

The other most distinguished feature of German *Number Published, 3000.