WorkHeinrich Heine

“Die Lorelei" in Das Buch der Lieder”

"Die Lorelei" in Das Buch der Lieder (1827) Inferred

Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) · 1827

InferredFuller invokes 'the Lorelei of the Rhine' twice as a known literary/legendary figure ? the siren on the Rhine rocks whose song lures boatmen to destruction. The legend was fixed in the German literary imagination by Clemens Brentano's 'Zu Bacharach am Rheine' (1801) and especially Heinrich Heine's 'Die Lorelei' (composed 1824; published in Das Buch der Lieder, Hamburg: Hoffmann und Campe, 1827).

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Documented 1843

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I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York1record

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Summer on the Lakes, in 1843

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“The Lorelei of the Rhine, with her syren song, and the sad events that follow, is found on the lonely rocks of Lake Superior.”

Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1844.

Inferred Fuller invokes 'the Lorelei of the Rhine' twice as a known literary/legendary figure ? the siren on the Rhine rocks whose song lures boatmen to destruction. The legend was fixed in the German literary imagination by Clemens Brentano's 'Zu Bacharach am Rheine' (1801) and especially Heinrich Heine's 'Die Lorelei' (composed 1824; published in Das Buch der Lieder, Hamburg: Hoffmann und Campe, 1827).